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Hi,
I dont know where all this information is coming from. Any laptop that has a BIOS can run XP.
In fact if you look at the machines being offered by DELL, HP, ASUS etc they are all available with XP as a downgrade option.
Apple Macs dont have a BIOS, they have EFI which is a type of firmware. This is probably a good thing as the BIOS has been with us since the time of the original IBM XT. Vista supports EFI, XP doesnt. Eventually no laptops will be built with BIOS they will all have EFI, currently very few Wintel machines have this.
In any case it is always possible to run a virtual machine. This is the preffered way as Intel includes virtualisation hardware on all new Core 2 CPU's.
Cheers
Paul
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