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Not 9.0 but one of the later ones has been installed on a Vista machine. As far as I know, it runs slowly but doesn't crash all that often.

Another option is VMware and an XP installation.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Haven't tried it myself. However, one of our guys has 64-bit Vista and found it's incompatible with various non 64-bit engineering apps. I think the Xilinx tools have problems with Vista 64. Do yourself a favor and load XP, even if you need to buy a separate hard drive. Be sure the laptop has XP drivers available. Vista is meant for home entertainment, not work.

John says, "I am buying..."

It's quite likely the laptop can be purchased with XP installed instead of Vista. My Lenovo was available that way.

...Jim Thompson

When he receives the machine, he can upgrade it to XP. Newegg sells XP for $131 plus another hard drive so he can preserve his original installation for warranty purposes.

Lenovo (IBM) is a rarity these days. Most have caved in to M$ pressure to push their crappy Vista OS. I think Lenovo charges an extra $85 if you want XP.

It's the hard drive that I have trouble with. ;-/

Lenovo IBM (nothing to do with each other anymore, other than Lenovo uses IBM service). XP is still a $0 option for those systems that come with Vista Business. Apparently XP can either come installed or shipped as a DVD with Vista installed. I'm not sure if they still do it, but I ordered a free XP DVD for my wife's Vista Thinkpad some time back.

Gad, my boss paid $85 to get his new Lenovo with XP. They installed it, so perhaps the charge was for installation.

Perhaps it's model dependant. The models I looked at came with Vista Business, so XP Pro was a no cost option. If it's a Vista Home model, naturally the "Pro" version will cost more (as does Vista Business). THe point is that, according to the Lenovo site, they're not charging extra for (only) XP.