Actually I had a good experience with Toshiba, Lenovo, and Fujitsu, 
providing WINXP media or restore CDs when purchased from ^better^ 
stores.  Not those huge and faceless national  chains.  But even with 
them you should be able to order XP at a small extra fee....

E.
Kyle Elmblade wrote:
> Eugene brings up a very good point about Vista, and this is increasingly
> becoming a serious issue. I bought a new Toshiba laptop last December and it
> came with Vista pre-installed. I knew I was going to reinstall with XP, but
> I wish I had done a little homework on the model prior to purchasing it. I
> literally spent two weeks tracking down all of the appropriate device
> drivers that would work to get this thing up and running on XP. I have since
> made very careful backups of all those drivers should I need to reinstall
> the OS in the future.
>
>   

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