[SouthTexas]

Dell does, but you may have to go to the commercial side.

[ShadowAce]

[peyton randolph]

Just bought a new ASUS netbook from Amazon.com that comes pre-loaded with Windows XP. Great for traveling.

[immadashell]

Go to the Dell website. They offer a “Windows XP downgrade” for free with many of their offers.

[library user]

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).

[devane617]

frys.com

[Jack of all Trades]

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.

[rahbert]

The Win 7 beta is pretty nice, as well as being free.

[AppyPappy]

Just upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out.

[Safrguns]

Go local.

Most of your local custom PC shops do it.

[dbwz]

You can purchase XP versions from software vendors. It should be around $125.

[Frantzie]

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.

http://www.compusa.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1815&name=XP%20Professional%20PCs

You will probably have to go with XP Pro but it is almost identical to XP.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Lenovo, Dell, MSI, ASUS. You have to look for them, though.

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.

[chimera]

I went to the local MicroCenter store a few months ago and got one of their last copies of XP disks that they sold to people building their own systems. You might find a copy of the disks that way. Just tell the salesman you are building your own PC and need an XP operating system for it.

[lonestar]

My WalMart has eMachines with Windows XP.

[MEGoody]

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.)

[libbylu]

Walmart, emachine 299.00, I bought last year this time, my work can’t handle Vista.

[qam1]

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

[grobdriver]

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.

[The Great RJ]

You might check with smaller vendors. My sister-in-law bought an Acer laptop and the shop where she bought it wipes out Vista and installs Windows XP on everything they sell. The owners said that Vista is so problematic they will continue to do this as long as they can still get legal copies of XP. You might also look to a custom builder (desktop) as they too might still give you the choice of XP.

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.