If this is some kind of logic problem, I fail.

[effervescible]

I need to get a new computer. Here is my dilemma:

-I don't really want to get a laptop as my primary computer because I find them too squished together for desktop use, and I have a nice LCD monitor I want to continue to use.
-I like Macs but they are effin' expensive, and $1000 minimum is really more than I can justify. I have never in my life taken on credit card debt I couldn't pay off at the end of the month and I'm not going to start now.
-So I could buy a PC but there's the issue of Vista. Fucking Vista. I don't want Vista, and even if I get a computer with XP on it or install XP over Vista, in time, Vista's gonna be the way of things and I am not enthused about that.
-Linux. Let's just say "NO" and leave it at that. Besides, I don't have any pirated Photoshop for Linux.

So this leaves me in a position of...NOTHING is suitable, so I sit spinning my wheels and using the old computer. Which sort of sucks since the secondary hard drive died in, like, February.

WHAT DO I DO?

Comments

[aevalin.livejournal.com]

Dell actually is still selling computers with XP on it - at least laptops - I just ordered one for a client. You can still buy XP in a few places (M$oft actually has just agreed to let people downgrade from Vista - trouble is not everyone is introducing new hardware with XP drivers) so if you bought a system without an OS you could put XP on it.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

I couldn't select XP as an option yesterday when I was sampling their build-your-own-desktop thingum. Oh man, I didn't even THINK of computers not coming with Windows drivers anymore. Aaaaggh.

[aevalin.livejournal.com]

Make sure you're looking under Small Business and not home. They try and shove Home folks into Vista but they know businesses might still need XP. I'm seeing some on the Canuck site.

[aevalin.livejournal.com]

http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/optix?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

These ones let you choose either...

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Thank you! See, this is why I turn to you people who are smarter than me. ;)