I have a friend who wants a new complete pc system, around £400
but does NOT want Vista, he wants XP.
Making enquiries a sales assistant at PC World curtly told me that all
their systems come with Vista, Comet are stating the same on their website,
so where can he buy a good pc of known and proven make and have the OS
of his choice ?
It seems the big retailers are all geared up to persuade us all to dance to 
Microsoft's tune,
and are not prepared to offer the individual a choice.

-- 
Mike W

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:31:31 GMT, "Mike the Brewer"
 wrote:

>I have a friend who wants a new complete pc system, around £400
>but does NOT want Vista, he wants XP.
>Making enquiries a sales assistant at PC World curtly told me that all
>their systems come with Vista, Comet are stating the same on their website,
>so where can he buy a good pc of known and proven make and have the OS
>of his choice ?
>It seems the big retailers are all geared up to persuade us all to dance to 
>Microsoft's tune,
>and are not prepared to offer the individual a choice.

look at www.misco.co.uk, their Acer machines are OK, you'll need a
monitor as well but I'd expect the whole lot to come in under £450.

HTH

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:31:31 GMT, Mike the Brewer wrote:

> I have a friend who wants a new complete pc system, around £400
> but does NOT want Vista, he wants XP.
> Making enquiries a sales assistant at PC World curtly told me that all
> their systems come with Vista, Comet are stating the same on their website,
> so where can he buy a good pc of known and proven make and have the OS
> of his choice ?
> It seems the big retailers are all geared up to persuade us all to dance to 
> Microsoft's tune,
> and are not prepared to offer the individual a choice.

XP still advertised on Dell's website :-

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b=&c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&kc=D4XESS01&l=en&oc=D115008XP&rbc=D115008XP&s=dhs&~ck=expbuy3

Dunno if they really still do it - just found it on their site. I have a
couple of Dells - more than happy with them
-- 
Regards,

Hugh Jampton

Try the Met.

In message , Shuggy 
 writes
>Try the Met.
Try Hub computers in Brigg.

I have had excellent service from them and so have some of my friends.
-- 
Max George