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Gates and his O.E.M. customers PROMOTE XP on those systems rather than sell or support Win98SE for older machines; if cars were like computers, you couldn't find fuel for your three year old model except at a few isolated stations and it would be stale as well.

The $1000 do everything home system you buy today is obsolete junk according to the industry next year. That may be fine for people making $100K with nice benefits packages but it sucks for the parents struggling on $50K trying to be sure their children have the computer they're told is needed to succeed.

I miss my Amiga, too! (Actually, I still have my first Amiga 500 -Tetris is still challenging)Also have P4 laptop with XP.

I make well under $50K and have 3 computers in my house. Reasonably up to date computers can be found new and used at under $500. I can build a smoking hot gaming system for that price myself.

The system I'm using right now, I built 5 or 6 years ago and it runs everything I have thrown at it. It started it's life with Win98, moved up toWin2K, then finally XP pro. I have also had several Linux distros installed at various times. The trick is to do your homework and get the best price/performance ratio you can afford.