[Baynative]

I'm in need of a new computer and I don't want the mess my wife deals with every day trying to work with Windows 8. I've heard there's a company near Seattle doing quite a business in reconditioned laptops that come with Windows 7 - XP Office. (Of course as the the demand for 7 keeps growing, Microsoft will probably write updates rendering it inoperative.)

If I can't find them, I think it's time to go to Mac.

[Grampa Dave]

You might consider an Acer Chromebook 15 or their new desktop.

Each morning I pick up the lid, and I’m ready to go without the IE bs re updates.

[Bryanw92]

>>If I can’t find them, I think it’s time to go to Mac.

LOL. I tried that last year. If you don’t like Microsoft being in charge of your computer, then you’ll REALLY hate Apple.

[catnipman]

tons of new and refurb W7 Pro systems available on Dell.com. W7 PCs will be sold for several more years. The enterprise did not convert to W8 and they won’t be converting to W10 either, and yet PC companies still want to sell some PCs. Go figure.

Best bets for Dell are Optiplexes and latitudes. Their consumer stuff isn’t very good.

If you want a desktop, there’s plenty of new W7 Pro x64 optiplexes (includes Dell factory onsite 3 yr warranty builtin) for sale at great prices at places like newegg.com and provantage.com. I buy these from both places all the time for both my business and consumer clients. They run around $615.00 delivered for 1TB HD, 8GB RAM, I5 Intel CPU, DVD-RW optical drive, etc.