now I waste my time here on the forum and rely on you guys to make a wise purchasing decision

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volcs0 wrote:
Yeah, that will be fine for them. I bought my sister a $400 Toshiba 2 years ago, and she beat the crap out of it, dragging it to class every day - it is still going strong.

If Vista comes on there, will you wipe it and install XP?

oh crap, I forgot about this. I noticed they don't even list the OS, could be Linux, maybe that's why it's cheapish.