Posted on 07/01/2009 6:33:40 AM PDT by reaganaut1
I have a computer with Windows Vista but prefer Windows XP. Who sells new computers with XP? I think such vendors must exist, because my company still uses XP and presumably buys computers for new employees.
Dell does, but you may have to go to the commercial side.
Just bought a new ASUS netbook from Amazon.com that comes pre-loaded with Windows XP. Great for traveling.
Go to the Dell website. They offer a “Windows XP downgrade” for free with many of their offers.
Try dell.com or Best Buy, but I’m not sure if Best Buy still does XP anymore.
I haven’t ever had any issues with a Vista system, but I’m just a local fix-it computer guy.
Only problems I’ve ever seen with Vista, i.e., major, “show-stopper” problems, is that a certain percentage of folks have trouble installing a printer properly with Vista (usually HP brand printer).
frys.com
CDW.com
They have hundreds to choose from. I think they’re fairly common everywhere. The catch is you’re not going to get the XP disks, or even a recovery disk. If you lunch the system, you can only reinstall Vista.
The Win 7 beta is pretty nice, as well as being free.
Just upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out.
Go local.
Most of your local custom PC shops do it.
You can purchase XP versions from software vendors. It should be around $125.
Win 7 has been working great for me for 2 months now.
Vist actually works weel if you take the time to learn it and WIn 7 is an extension of VISTa.
Buying a new computer and putting XP on it is like buying a new car, removing the radial tires and replacing them, at your own cost, with bias plies. XP is a 10 year-old OS
Do you own research - Vista is better than XP and Win & is better than Vista
“Only problems I’ve ever seen with Vista, i.e., major, “show-stopper” problems, is that a certain percentage of folks have trouble installing a printer properly with Vista (usually HP brand printer).”
Yes and I can tell you how maddening it is to have your brand new HP computer refuse to work with your brand new HP printer. In my case the printer kept printing the same doc sporadically over several days.
I forget what I had to turn off but whatever it was they could have configured the computer to do that. I did solve it eventually but man.
Tiger Direct bought CompUSA’s assets. They run some CompUSA stores plus sell Tiger Direct and CompUSA online.
They sell new HP machines with XP Pro.
You will probably have to go with XP Pro but it is almost identical to XP.
Frankly, I'd just wait for Win7. We've been testing it at work and it's fairly impressive. We even slapped it on a old Dell P3 with one gig of ram it ran every bit as well as XP did on the machine.
Win 7 has been working great for me for 2 months now.
Vista actually works well if you take the time to learn it and WIn 7 is an extension of Vistaa.
Buying a new computer and putting XP on it is like buying a new car, removing the radial tires and replacing them, at your own cost, with bias plies. XP is a 10 year-old OS
Do your own research - Vista is better than XP and Win 7 is better than Vista.
He will need the higher end Windows 7 because MSFT foolishly is not putting XP emulation on the lower end versions of Windows 7.
My WalMart has eMachines with Windows XP.
Pre-order Windows 7 at a discount and put up with Vista for a couple of more months.
One of the problems with Vista is that it came with a bunch of computer dummy features turned on that really reduce performance. See below for tweaks
http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/supertweaks.htm
Windows 7 is going to be the best of the best operating systems. Really stable and user/hardware friendly.
Good luck finding new computers with XP already installed. Microsoft stopped support on XP in April of this year. (Extended support - which you have to pay for - is available until next year I believe.)
Walmart, emachine 299.00, I bought last year this time, my work can’t handle Vista.
Vista is really wonderful you are just too stupid to realize it and it’s your fault for not wanting to spend hours/days upgrading your hardware/software.
- From the Microsoft salesmen that always show up in these thread
Most any computer vender has two software options - Home and Business.
Home is Vista
Business will be XP.
Getting the Business package will not get you the teenager bells and whistles, just a good, working platform.
“Vista is really wonderful you are just too stupid to realize it and it’s your fault for not wanting to spend hours/days upgrading your hardware/software.”
Ain’t that the truth!
Note Microsoft is now beta testing Windows 7, Vista's replacement. Supposed to become available by fall. I think Vista might be another Windows ME.
Read later.
You could also embrace the ‘Darkside’,
either use bit torrent or binary newsgroups, there are versions of XP which can use auto-update without a problem and do not require registration.
You really have 2 excellent choices - buy a tricked out Vista machine and get the free Windows 7 download from Microsoft and run it. You will be AMAZED! Or you can wait 3 months till Windows 7 units come flying out. 7 is Wonderful!
- From the Microsoft salesmen that always show up in these thread
So are you refuting the charge that you're too stupid to install Vista? Or are you agreeing with the "Microsoft salesmen"?
Microsoft has actually banned them from offering new machines with XP installed (but they have come up with a faux-XP, a version of Vista with the look and feel of XP, for commercial customers who bitch and moan enough)
I have been running vista for over a year now without any issues whatsoever, except that a coupla of my older printers would not work with it....and a few programs, but they were older too
BTTT
Vista is really wonderful you are just too stupid to realize it and it’s your fault for not wanting to spend hours/days upgrading your hardware/software
^^^
Truer words and all that. I used Microsoft for 20 years in my business; Vista finally cured me. Couldn’t run a new printer or ANY program that didn’t come installed.
Gave the piece of c**p to our son and he has a smoking Unix machine now. We switched to Macs. Should have done it years ago.
Do you have a licensed copy of Windows XP?
If so you can run it on a new PC (preferrably one with Win 7).
You can use Virtual Machine to run older versions of Windows on it - even Win98
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/
It needs XP emulation to make consumers happy. They only are offering it on the high end - it should be on all versions.
Of course you can still buy a copy of XP just look on pricewatch. com or Newegg.com.
Of course you can still buy a copy of XP just look on pricewatch. com or Newegg.com.
Just bought a Dell Inspiron 15 laptop, and I had a choice of which OS I wanted.
I just got a nice “E-Machine”....not too expensive and was glad that it had XP instead of Vista....
There is a third choice.
I’ve been using Vista at home on three computers and it has worked fine. But I upgraded to the trial version of Windows 7 recently on my laptop which I am using now. It can be purchased for $49.95 for a limited time and the free version will continue to operate just fine until March 2010 at which time it will shut down at periodic intervals reminding people to upgrade. You have burn a disc and install it but it was pretty seamless to be truthful. I think it will be fine and in my opinion a good deal better than XP. I think this whole XP/Vista controversy is a lot of nothing except for corporate users and dedicated software. For most software home Vista users will do just fine as will Windows 7.
BTW, I’m no computer wizard but the Windows 7 download went rather well. Time consuming but I’m glad I did it. Looks pretty good to me. But again I had no problems with Vista either.
I will probably put Windows 7 on all three home computers. I also use Firefox and Thunderbird. Works fine.
Well stated. I couldn’t agree more.
That looks awesome! Thanks for the tip. I may just get one.
Glad to help. Very pleased with the netbook. Note that it only comes with a trial version of MSOffice. Means you’ll either need to pay for that if you want it or use free OpenOffice instead. I installed OpenOffice, Thunderbird, AVG free, and several other applications. All have worked well.
> You could also embrace the ‘Darkside’,
either use bit torrent or binary newsgroups, there are versions of XP which can use auto-update without a problem and do not require registration.<
...this “friend that I know” (cough)has 5 versions of XP thru mininova. MOST of them dont’ need registration plus 1 of them amazingly was created with the Vista Aero interface. why 5? For future events from MS that will eventually outlaw XP.
How does your friend know the pirated versions of XP aren’t security compromised? They could be monitoring keystrokes for logins and passwords.
Yes, XP is available.
More importantly the service support is excellent and for small business purchases, the tech support is exclusively US based, not India.
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