>>I've gone through that with a HP laptop, at a ridiculous price - paid the vista tax (porez na budale), now I have a very fast XP machine :). It's actually HP who has to (or will have to, once) pay M$ the OEM price for Vista, no matter what OS gets on the machine. I think they get their money out of the adware/crapware they install and flood your desktop with. Luckily, it all vanishes when you boot from a XP setup disk :).
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>Ubuntuuu, Ubuntuuu!
>What ??? Did I say something politically incorrect again ??

So what, even if you did? They won't send you a political correction facility (just like we had "kulturno-popravni dom" ;).

>I am just calling my new puppie <vbg>
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>Oh yeah, I forgot ; *free* is magic word in marketing ...

I'd bet my daily dose of peanuts that some M$ marketing guru will prove that *free* will cost you more than Vista tax.