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“New & refurbished? LOL I wonder why? All those “bad raps” you heard about, no doubt.

My brother just bought a New refurbished Dell, but got it with Linux pre-installed, should be here tomorrow or Wed.

He chose Linux, because he has been playing around with one of my Ubuntu boxes, and likes the clean lines, the smooth interface, the ease and economy of finding and installing software, and the fact that it, a 700 mhz P4 outperforms his dual core Vista box, and knowing that he doesn’t have to buy anti-virus and firewall software each year.

Hey Vista...I’m glad I missed ya’!”
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I doubt there was ever anything wrong with it but Dell is obligated to label it as such. So far as I can tell it was new but I saved about $200 or so.

I’ve used it continuously since last Thursday and think Vista is visually beautiful and bug free. It is much, much easier to work with files and in fact I haven’t found anything to complain about.

I’ve used Linux (ubuntu) but quite honestly using Vista is ready for prime time. Linux is not. I’m sorry to break it to you but you will eventually wind up with a Vista machine. I strongly suggest that you buy one out of the box fully configured and ready to go with a big SATA hard drive, dual core, 2 gb of memory and all the bells and whistles. The software alone would cost $250 off the shelf and it is on the computer already and that doesn’t even count the hardware.

You do what you want to. I’ll stay with Vista. It has no bugs and works infinitely better than XP. My XP machine will be in the corner for that rainy day but I doubt it will do much more than gather dust.