I recently bought several Acer(s). I like Acer because they have all drivers availble online for each particular model, so it is very easy to erase Vista and install XP. Some manufactures, like Compaq don't provide all XP drivers for computes with pre-installed Vista. Dell makes it very difficult to find the right XP drivers for Vista computers, even if you call customer support, they are not sure which XP drivers you should download, and some XP drivers are missing.