I queried a number of places about replacing Vista with XP and the reply I received was that they could only sell the machines as is, if Vista was bundled that was how they had to sell them. If I replaced it with my own copy I would void warranty (don't know how that would be as I am not changing anything in the way of hardware only adding software). The only success I had was with Asus. I could install my own copy of XP with np.
