Most new laptops will have Vista home premium because that is what the
hardware vendors are installing but you could install multiple os on
multiple partitions and have a testbed for all them.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Don L<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> So, I took the courage to have wiped out everything on a hard drive running 
> xp pro from compaq bought zillions years ago (2001), and have it reformatted 
> with recovery cd for laptop for want of its own recovery cd, so, as far as OS 
> goes, it's a dead animal.  Chatting with HP rep, found out, oh sir, has it 
> been 4 or 5 years old we'll send you a recovery cd bla bla, now find a third 
> party reseller for your OS recovery bla bla... Now, back to the reason of 
> going postal, a clean machine for testing.  Also, would most of the freshmen 
> this fall have windows laptops on xp, vista or 7?  bestbuy, stapls all 
> display vista laptops out there in my region, a few with 7. I'll go with the 
> windows os that these kids laptops would use. your take?  who might have a 
> better answer?  th

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