Dell is still selling about four (new) PCs that come with XP. They also offer refurbished PCs and laptops that run XP Pro and Home.

I was at Best Buy this week. They can order various computers with XP on them, but it costs more.

I'm shopping for a new laptop; Vista is incompatible with my ISP (and therefore e-mail address) of the past twelve years.

Last night, I saw tons of gently used laptops & computers on eBay that run XP.

Yes they do! I've been pricing those once I saw what Mac Pros sold for. The Dell boxes come with lots of cool graphics card options, a whopping amount of memory for the buck, and a nice second monitor.

Thanks for the news about Best Buy. I didn't know any manufacturer other than Dell was offering Win XP still. I thought I was down to Dell vs. Apple -- or going the third way of Linux.

While I'm willing buy a refurbished laptop or a used one from someone I know, I'm leery of purchasing one through eBay -- though since I bought my car that way, I'm probably just being a Luddite. I'm weighing all my options and now that I know I don't have to add $1400 to a $2500 base model Mac Pro system just to get enough memory to run Photoshop, I have a lot more options than I'd originally feared!

You might want to check out TigerDirect.com. They're still selling XP laptops and desktops, with many that are refurbished but still under a warranty (generally a year from what I can tell).

Oh man -- those prices are SWEET. I can even build-to-order, though I'm completely unfamiliar with the maker.

Looks like that's where I'll probably end up getting my inexpensive laptop if there's money for that after replacing my CPU. Those are some amazingly good deals.

Hee! I was praising your advice farther down in the thread .....

While I'm willing buy a refurbished laptop or a used one from someone I know, I'm leery of purchasing one through eBay --

Me, too. That's why I checked with a local repair shop first, to see if they had any used ones for sale. Only one, because of course that's what people want.

Good luck in your search, and if you learn of any useful sites or search methods, please share the news.

Thank you! I will. Tigerdirect.com has some absolutely unbelievable deals on refurbished/open box laptops with Win XP. I'm thinking that if I can restrain myself not to blow it my whole budget on a desktop and if the possible Mac laptop discussed above falls through, that I'll be buying one of those cheap laptops for travel.

I was led to TigerDirect, too. The deals are very appealing. A fandom-friend who is a librarian has bought from TD.com for the library and for herself, with all praise for the prices and items.

I bought an "open box" Bose music system last fall, once of the best impulse purchases I've dived into. I hadn't thought of that for computers until now.

I wouldn't have either, to be honest. I'm glad I started so many months before I am planning to buy, though, because by giving myself all this time, I think I'll be a well-educated consumer. And, hopefully, I'll get the most for the money. :)

In the interest of full disclosure, the fandom friend Ter's referring to is me. ;)

My personal ordering has just been direct online orders, but when I was shopping for new flat panel monitors for the library, I was having problems. All the prices listed were the price with rebate, but you could only have one rebate. I needed seven monitors. So I finally just called and asked for help finding which panel was the cheapest that I could buy without using any rebates, and the CSR was very helpful.

I had our monitors ordered within minutes (and this was after giving me the name of it so I could check out the info online), and shipping was fast as well. Our UPS driver said he delivers a lot of stuff from Tiger Direct, so I consider that an indirect recommendation. :)