I am absolutely delighted with this laptop.
I am not confident enough with Vista to buy one of the many decently priced laptops that are available, I believe that Vista has probably got another year or so to go before it is as stable and as fast as XP is now. (Progress??)
I had even investigated refurbished laptops because of the operating system issue, so find a NEW laptop with the spec of this one, and running XP Pro, was absolutely wonderful.
Believe it or not, the price was actually slightly less than was being asked for a slightly inferior REFURBISHED laptop running XP, so who could complain about that?
I may well be looking at purchasing another one in the very near future. (If there are any left!)