You’re still wrong. If you buy a new machine with Vista, wipe the hard drive, and install XP, you’re still screwed unless the computer maker includes XP drivers for the new computer or the drivers are on the XP disk (good luck with that idea).
New machines are starting to come only with Vista installed.
However, if you buy a new Mac, you can slick the hard drive, install Windows XP, use the APPLE-SUPPLIED DRIVERS FOR XP, and use it as a Windows XP machine and NEVER have to see Mac OS X. (As much of a pity as that would be.)
Yep, we've done that on a couple of machines (MacBook Pro and Mini).
Runs like a bat outta hell!
In fact, XP runs faster on Mac hardware (native, as above), than on any other comparable "built for Windows" hardware!