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.
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