Can you find a new PC without Vista pre-installed?

[pstokely]

?

[mtnester]

1. I am having three of them built right now

so yes, if you get away from a big box store you can.

[pstokely]

2. What about Laptops?

[trof]

3. Yep. Bought one last month. "Vista enabled"

came with XP and free 'upgrade to Vista.
So far I'll pass.
Compaq Presario.

[KamaAina]

4. I believe that would be called a "Mac".

:-)

[pstokely]

6. Sorry, but I said "PC"

[qnr]

9. Which is also annoying in a way. Macs are personal computers. Ataris are

personal computers. Acorns are personal computers. And on and on.

[Poiuyt]

11. The new Intel Macs can run both the Mac OS and Windows

You could install Windows XP or Vista on the Windows side.

http://www.apple.com/getamac/windows.html

[mainegreen]

5. Oh hell yes.

Visit online retailers like tigerdirect.com or newegg.com

[Kutjara]

7. Dell are selling their PCs with XP.

The "express upgrade" to Vista is a no-cost option, which you can just ignore if you don't want Vista.

[LeftyMom]

8. Either buy configure to order or get a couple of months old off the shelf one on markdown

I've done CTO through these guys with no problems: http://www.ibuypower.com/mall/lobby.htm You can get one from them shipped with no OS at all on it and install whatever you want- it's cheaper that way too.

[B3Nut]

10. Have a local shop or local geek build you one

You can even get custom-built "whitebook" laptops, I'm using one I built from an Asus barebone kit. We buy the Asus barebone kits at work, and deck them out to taste. We still buy multi-packs of OEM XP Pro for our systems. I must say, though, since using the Vista Ultimate PC I built XP seems like a step backward. I'm currently beta-testing the upcoming Windows Home Server system, too...THAT will be a slick product. I can't speak for anyone else, but I LOVE Vista, DRM FUD nothwithstanding. But if you need XP, a small shop can easily accomodate (or buy a barebone kit and an OEM copy of XP Pro, once you build your first you probably will never want to buy a storebought machine again, it's much more fun and you get what YOU want right down to the last RAM stick.)

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

12. Yup!

Go online to Dell and customize your own computer. My mom just got a new computer and told them that she wanted XP with MS Office Word and Excel. They automatically come with either Works or WordPerfect(she can't stand the latter two).