You might still be able to find a laptop with XP on it, but you'll probably end up with a XP "pro" rather than "home". I ended up doing that when I replaced my old laptop back in March and for what I do, there's really no difference between pro and home.
If I hadn't had the XP option, I would have seriously looked at a Mac because as Vista is really nothing more than a service pack for XP and a resource hog to boot.
So, totally unhelpful, I'm sure, but really you've got to decide what you want out of a new machine. And, of course, don't forget to take into consideration what kind of things you do with the computer and whether you want or will have to invest time and money on and new programs if some of what you've got for Windows isn't open source and/or written for Mac.
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If I hadn't had the XP option, I would have seriously looked at a Mac because as Vista is really nothing more than a service pack for XP and a resource hog to boot.
So, totally unhelpful, I'm sure, but really you've got to decide what you want out of a new machine. And, of course, don't forget to take into consideration what kind of things you do with the computer and whether you want or will have to invest time and money on and new programs if some of what you've got for Windows isn't open source and/or written for Mac.