Does release of Vista mean no more XP laptops for sale?

I've been reading a rumor over at fatwallet ( HERE) claiming there will be numerous deals on Laptops with XP come the 30th of january. The reason being is that they will be selling off all the XP machines to make room for Vista Laptops.

My Question is that you won't beable to buy OEM XP laptops anymore?

Why not, I am in the market for a laptop but I would never want it to come with Vista, I want to make sure Micro$oft gets all the kinks out before I even think about upgrading from XP.

Please help clear this up for me
Thanks,
-BassKozz

 

I suppose that it won't be like you said for the first time,but when Vista expand,it will be harder to find a notebook with XP.Just like when XP replaced Millenium.

 

By the looks of it, seems that way. I live in Japan and there are number of stock clearance sales going on right now for XP preinstalled notebooks (for example Toshiba Japan has a 20% discount and NEC Japan has a 17% discount specifically on XP preinstalled notebooks). Sony Japan no longer has the option to order with Windows XP.

So it is safe to assume that once they run out XP preinstalled machines they will ship only Vista. Maybe you might be able to find XP on low end systems (512MB RAM, Celeron etc) but most probably not with high end notebooks.

 

There will definitely be discounts on Windows XP notebooks once Vista hits. It'll be a good chance to score deals if you don't want Vista. However, they will not be discontinuing them after a certain day -- at least not all stores. They'll just try and sell them as fast as possible to get rid of the stock.

 

by the end of the year you likely won't be able to find an xp laptop anywhere except ebay.

 

This is scary
I need to hurry up and buy, I need a laptop but DON'T want Vista...

I am looking for a deal on a Dell e1405 or e1505. Time to start lookin.

 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128669-page,1-c,vistalonghorn/article.html

 

by the same token, anyone know how long XP will be available for purchase? I need a copy for a desktop I'm gonna build, and don't know if I should tryy and snap a copy up quick or what.

 

This sucks! I really don't want a laptop with Vista on it but I don't have enough money yet to buy one now.

 

I read that PC World article that BassKozz posted, and I was taken aback by this statement:

Was the author (Mike Elgan) not even alive when XP came out? I thought Rule No. 1 of upgrading your OS was to uninstall your antivirus software and kiss it goodbye 'cause it's certainly not going to work with the new version. Now we expect our bloated Norten $uite$ to work across major OS releaseses -- i.e., with two different kernels -- while at the same time we blog up and down about how the new OS just isn't new or different enough to justify the upgrade?

People, we are getting the Windows Vista we deserve. Just buy it already...

 

That's why I'm sticking with XP till the end of my 3 year uni course (into year 1) and also seeing what AVG say about my 2 year licence

 

If I paid for a year of service I would expect a year of service, so I would expect either a prorated refund or a free upgrade to the new version.

 

Ditto

 

I expect Vista will dominate the consumer side of laptop business in fairly short order, but businesses are much less likely to upgrade right away until they have had a chance to make sure Vista will work with their systems. I would think XP will continue to be available for a awhile just as Windows 2000 was after XP came out.

 

Regardless of whatever is on your laptop, obviously retail - and cracked - copies of 32 bit and 64 bit Win XP exist and you can ALWAYS install either on your machine if you feel like it at any time.

With the expansion of Linux you will also increasingly be able to buy "naked" machines as well.

So this is no big deal. Of course Microsoft wants you to to buy and use their locked0down new OS that took 5 years too many to release. Its up to you to do otherwise.

 

XP retail version will be available for a while; but I don’t think notebooks with preinstalled XP are going to last long; at least not in the home and home office category. Maybe business notebooks will ship for few more months with XP as an option; the other alternative is to get one of those OEM/ODM notebooks.

Well… I don’t think the anti virus company is obligated to do that. If you bought a XP anti virus application and decide to change the OS then why should they refund or give you a free upgrade ?. I don’t see that any different from asking for a partial refund or a free upgrade on the virus guard if you decide to use Macintosh or Linux. But as a courtesy they should give you an upgrade for a nominal fee.

 

I expect you will be able to find copies without any trouble for a while. Finding a system with XP preloaded is going to become increasingly difficult to get as time goes by, though.

Apparently Sony (I hear) and Dell (checked personally) are no longer offering XP at all.

 

Noooooooooooo, are you serious... I am looking to pickup a Dell e1405 or e1505 this month, but I DON'T WANT VISTA !!!

Are you 100% sure about this?

 

not a problem, no one sells a pre-built computer anything like the specs I want anyway. But I'm certainly not ready to trust Linux to run everything I need in a timely fashion, so I'll need a copy of XP for it.

BassKozz, you can try fighting Dell for a computer with no OS, and install junk yourself.