Buying a new laptop

Clarifications

Personally, I prefer Sony notebooks, and I have no personal experience with Compaq.

Having said that, you are looking for a moderate-price notebook/laptop with XP Pro OS.

The Compaq Presario V6700TX series would fit the bill:

http://tinyurl.com/589zj5

The base price for this series of notebooks is $760 (at the Compaq website above).

Rick/Portland, OR

and have a real good look around, just keep in mind that when you are purchasing for someone else if anything goes wrong it could come back to haunt you. If you are familiar with her old setup you should have an idea if her programs that she mainly uses will be compatiable with Vista. If they are not compatiable the obvious choice would be XP.

If she is on a budget the Acer factory outlet sometimes have refurbished Notebooks that can be picked up for a bargain. A couple of links to get you going.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,118753-page,1-c,notebooks/article.html

http://www.laptopadvisor.com/

At www.buyxg.com you can select the OS you want, or even no OS at all.

You can also order some Dell models with XP.

But hurry, it will be more difficult to buy a copy of XP after June 30th.

Chas