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Where can I buy a WINXP Laptop?

uberman

uberman

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I realized that many of my programs will only work on WINXP. I'm in the SF Bay Area and I've looked at some used XP Laptops at shops. Prices are like $699.00 for a 4 year old HP XP which would sell currently for the same brand new as a WIN7.

Of course this is high, but the warranty would be like 90 days. I want and would pay for an extended warranty.

So I thought I might look in the Outlets (Like Lenovo) for a returned or such XP.

Could anyone reccomend somewhere I might find a major dealer wth a scratch and Bump or decent XP notebook that I could buy a warranty with. I wouldn't do EBAY because I bought a $170.00 Video Card there before, paid insurance and shipping. It arrived smashed and the vendor told me F*** Off! I never spend more than $50.00 on EBAY now.

Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
 
Dell Outlet has scratch and dent, refurbished, warranty same as new XP lappys. Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with ebay. I've bought over 30 parts/repair laptops and have had very few problems.
 
Dell Financial Services is another source, a friend bought a couple of D610 notebooks for a charity back in 2009 and said they were in very good condition.

http://www.dfsdirectsales.com/

Another approach would be run the XP apps in a virtual machine, either the one built into some versions of Windows 7 or using VMWare or VirtualBox. You don't need an XP DVD and license key for the Windows7 built-in VM, you do for the other two.
 
uberman said:
I realized that many of my programs will only work on WINXP. I'm in the SF Bay Area and I've looked at some used XP Laptops at shops. Prices are like $699.00 for a 4 year old HP XP which would sell currently for the same brand new as a WIN7.

Of course this is high, but the warranty would be like 90 days. I want and would pay for an extended warranty.

So I thought I might look in the Outlets (Like Lenovo) for a returned or such XP.

Could anyone reccomend somewhere I might find a major dealer wth a scratch and Bump or decent XP notebook that I could buy a warranty with. I wouldn't do EBAY because I bought a $170.00 Video Card there before, paid insurance and shipping. It arrived smashed and the vendor told me F*** Off! I never spend more than $50.00 on EBAY now.

Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
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Just buy a new Lenovo Thinkpad. It will come with Windows 7 on it. try it and the XP compatibility mode and see if your stuff works. If it doesn't Lenovo has XP drivers for all of the Thinkpad series as many businesses still use XP.
I know for a fact the T410 and below series all have XP drivers available as I'm typing from one right now.
 
Dell or Newegg offer usually good refurbished laptops. But another obvious solution is to buy a new laptop and install XP onto it.

Or have you tried running your programs in "compatibility mode"? This isn't really a fix that always works, but the problem with keeping an outdated OS is that eventually Microsoft stops supporting it. I would usually suggest figuring out a migration path for your software rather than keeping old an old OS just so that things "work".
 
Keep an eye on outlet.lenovo.com the stock is always changing and they have a good selection of WinXP laptops at times. They usually have a windows7 liscense too that has been downgraded to XP.
 
JeffreyLebowski said:
Just buy a new Lenovo Thinkpad. It will come with Windows 7 on it. try it and the XP compatibility mode and see if your stuff works. If it doesn't Lenovo has XP drivers for all of the Thinkpad series as many businesses still use XP.
I know for a fact the T410 and below series all have XP drivers available as I'm typing from one right now.
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If you go this route, make sure you get W7 Professional or higher. XP Mode is not available for the Home edition.
 
pukemon said:
Caveat: as long as there are available, working drivers for said machine.
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VM 🙂

I have a VPN program for work that is only 32-bit. Now I just use virtualbox and it's all good, and no driver issues. Used XP because it uses less memory and I happen to have tons of old licenses.

Of course, it's possible some programs will run slowly/not at all, especially if they behave weird wrt graphics.
 
i got a CF-W8 Panasonic that i regret purchasing. XP pro. $402 shipped. 3gb ram. oem vista business too. see fs/t
 
i'm just amazed that there are no newer versions of these XP programs out there. and unless it's a disk utility there is run as XP mode without using the virtual mode or vmware desktop
 
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