If you're buying a new PC waiting isn't an option as the new os is pretty much forced on you.  :grr: Unless of course you want to special order one with XP (if the option is avalible) or go out and buy a version of the previous os and have to pay for that and then hope you can find drivers for all your new hardware.... Big companies try to force change wether it is progress or not because they have to distrube their new software and make more $$.

oddly enough, I find that PCs sold at comp stores seem to be cheaper than any equivalent I can make on a <$400 budget. ^^perhaps I'm not skilled at finding the parts.  And like DJ said, XP is still pretty expensive.  That alone cuts my budget down to ~$300.

I was considering getting a good deal on a comp, and loading linux onto it, but I find that most of the time, the warranty gets voided if you do that.

however, my problem is, you can't really build laptops that easily

i was not talking about vista itself for updates. i was talking about softwares , like ti connect, starcraft, firefox, opera, etc. Some are alerady compatible but I'm sure there are others who aren't yet

true, and as you know all the help and support files that comes with each windows releases, especially recent ones, usually misses everything related to 90% of the errors and malfunctions in windows, and when trying to search for something else you rarely get the right results. But yeah, thats what happen when you make third world country ppl translate/write the help files at miserable wage of $1/hour, don't expect ppl to produce quality stuff if you're not gonna pay them and threat them properly

It crashed once for me. And then I loaded the 64 kbs as a binary tilemap :oops:
also  the time it crashed I loaded a tilemap from a bitmap and it gave me a lovely error mesage

thank you then.

maybe i should learn how to program comp in something other than java and make my own versions. >.>