I gues Dell is still good value in USA, but here, when I bought my laptop, on the models I found suitable to my needs either there wasn't anymore the option to have XP instead of Vista or adding the options I needed and delivery fees to base model price I got excessive prices... I ended to buy an HP, in that period, excluding loss leader models with almost inexistent availability, it was the best equipped for the price I wanted to spend , and although it was quite awkward to get it working with Kubuntu 7.10, I managed to do it, and now, with 8.04, installation went smoother than when I have to install Windows, only the Agere winmodem is still unsupported, but the rare times I'm forced to use 56k modem instead of Wi-Fi connection to ADSL routers, I can boot XP.







