I am about to buy a desktop, probably today. Over the past year, I have been advised by numerous experts NOT to buy Vista under any circumstance. Not just one person said this, many have. Far too many problems that are just totally screwball. Use XP.

I am looking at buying a Dell desktop with XP installed and it has the Vista license if I want to use it later.

I am also told do NOT buy a computer with Vista installed, thinking that you can just wipe it out and put XP on it... they say it's sometimes impossible to totally clean up the drive.