Most sellers want to preserve the way the notebook was originally built. Each individual computer type has a set of drivers that may or may not work with other operating systems. Have you ever tried to install a different OS on a computer you’ve bought? I once made a swap from Windows Me (junk!) back to Windows 2000, and it didn’t go so well. The battery didn’t work correctly, and the mouse pad wouldn’t work without the drivers from the Me version. The same is absolutely true if a computer built for Windows XP suddenly gets stuck with Windows Vista; you’re just going to see a whole lot more problems than it’s worth. For that reason, if a Windows XP laptop was built for that OS, they won’t change it over.
Check with companies such as Dell, Asus, Acer, etc. (notice a trend?) to look for older model computers that came pre-installed with XP. You can search for them much in the way you found your other cheap refurbished laptops, via Google, eBay, or any number of other sites. Best of luck! Finding a good windows XP laptop isn’t as hard as you may think!
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