Where do all the Windows XP Laptops go?

[MFLCommish]

I'm intersted in buying a laptop but i want one with xp. where do all the dells, hps etc go now? all i see is vista. i thinking of ordering 3 or 4 so was wondering where the good deals were. nothing crazy. just in the $400-600 range.

[ODogg]

Re: Where do all the Windows XP Laptops go?

I'm intersted in buying a laptop but i want one with xp. where do all the dells, hps etc go now? all i see is vista. i thinking of ordering 3 or 4 so was wondering where the good deals were. nothing crazy. just in the $400-600 range.

i'm sure you could probably still request XP without any issue, now a year from now I doubt that will be the case..

[Pappy Knuckles]

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Ha. Well today I bought a laptop after years of needing a new computer. It's so nice to be able to multitask without the damn thing slowing to a crawl. Anyways, I was in the same boat as you. I didn't want Vista on my system but pretty much every comp I looked at had i preinstalled. I could've had one ordered with XP but that was too much work for me. I bit the bullet and got a Vista laptop. I've been playing with it all day and so far I really enjoy the changes. It's not the "devil" that many computer nerds will make you think. However, I wouldn't reccomend making the leap unless you already plan on getting a new computer. No need to buy the OS independently.

I'm a classic view only kind of guy, but I love this effect lol.

[The Chef]

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My problem with Vista is the amount of weird things that wont work with it, I tried downloading Real Player yesterday only to watch my system crash the moment it was finished and installed, wouldnt open the program at all, had to go into safe mode and get rid of that. What took the cake though was when I plugged in a thumb drive only to find out that it wont work either, works perfectly fine on my desktop running XP but not on my laptop running Vista, there are some weird bugs associated with Vista at this point.

[Pappy Knuckles]

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I'm sure there's a ton of bugs but I personally haven't encountered any problems yet. I've installed a ton of stuff including real player.

[The Chef]

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I'm sure there's a ton of bugs but I personally haven't encountered any problems yet. I've installed a ton of stuff including real player.

Wow, I tried installing it twice with the same problems each time, is it possible that it could effect me and not someone else then? I was shocked when it didnt work but after the fiasco with the thumb drive I wasnt blown away.

[Altimus]

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My problem with Vista is the amount of weird things that wont work with it, I tried downloading Real Player yesterday only to watch my system crash the moment it was finished and installed, wouldnt open the program at all, had to go into safe mode and get rid of that. What took the cake though was when I plugged in a thumb drive only to find out that it wont work either, works perfectly fine on my desktop running XP but not on my laptop running Vista, there are some weird bugs associated with Vista at this point.

Which one do you have? On my lap top at work Vista Business had a lot problems. While at home, Vista Ultimate running the same programs didn't have any.

Been really disappointed with the Business edition so far.

[pk500]

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Reports from many sources indicate that Vista, in its current state, is HORRIBLE for gaming. So if you're into PC gaming, I would steer clear of Vista for a while until it's patched and until hardware manufacturers get their cards, etc., up to speed with the huge RAM requirements of Vista.

I'm an avid PC sim racer, and I'm glad I still have an XP machine.

Take care,
PK

[mjb2124]

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I'm sure there's a ton of bugs but I personally haven't encountered any problems yet. I've installed a ton of stuff including real player.

Yeah I haven't had any issues with Vista Ultimate. It can be a resource hog, but that's really the only issue I've had.

I don't think it's worth upgrading to Vista though. I certainly wouldn't have bought it if I didn't get it for free as part of my jobs MSDN collection.

[fishepa]

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I only have Vista because I didn't pay for it, I would not actually spend money on it.

[dagger55]

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I only have Vista because I didn't pay for it, I would not actually spend money on it.

ditto.

and I have it on my mac, which i never use.... its just there in case for some odd reason i NEED vista...

[The Chef]

Re: Where do all the Windows XP Laptops go?

Which one do you have? On my lap top at work Vista Business had a lot problems. While at home, Vista Ultimate running the same programs didn't have any.

Been really disappointed with the Business edition so far.

I have Windows Premium, unfortunatly game pre-installed on my laptop and there are certain things I dont hate about Vista Im also wishing I could have gotten a laptop with XP instead.