[alice_in_bubbaland]

Agreed!!! I just received my new Dell laptop on Wednesday. Vista STINKS!!!!

I'm already thinking about going back to Windows XP. It's slow on our home network, my Excell spreadsheet program won't work on it. Now I have to get Office 2007 and it's way toooo pricey!

I'm ticked!!

[Slapshot68]

Yeah, Vista is particularly lethargic on laptops...you gotta make sure you get AT LEAST 2 gig of RAM.

That said, there are a couple of places you can still get laptops with XP...Dell is one, though the selection is limited.

[jslade]

go to openoffice.org. It’s free.

[dubie]

Agreed!!! I just received my new Dell laptop on Wednesday. Vista STINKS!!!! I'm already thinking about going back to Windows XP. It's slow on our home network, my Excell spreadsheet program won't work on it. Now I have to get Office 2007 and it's way toooo pricey! I'm ticked!!

be careful and make sure you have a driver as most new laptops are coming with SATA drives. In the bios, tick the SATA native mode to off and hope you can find a sata controller driver for XP. I have run into several laptops toshiba brand being one of them that hardware does not support XP as they refuse to provide an XP sata controller driver driver hence no upgrade possible...