I have XP on another HP laptop that I bought in 2006. Works fine, but then I hardly use it, since I got this new one in 2008, so I am not going to upgrade the old one.
My HP laptop’s about 4 years old. I figure I’ll be in the market a couple years from now (if not sooner...). I’m glad to see Windows 7 come out from that standpoint if no other. I had no intention of buying a Vista machine, for whatever reason. And other operating systems, as good as they may be, don’t provide solutions for my simple yet specific needs.