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Rob, I think you'll have a problem getting xp onto a modern laptop. The majority of them have AHCI locked on in bios, for comms to the hard drives and that would require you to get an XP driver for it and a floppy drive connected so as to install it during the installation of xp. I just looked up an Acer Aspire 5740 which should be a sub $900 modern laptop and there are no vista or xp drivers available for it, only win7.
I am running win7 32bit without issue, but all new laptops I've seen are coming with 64bit windows installed. I stuck with 32bit windows 7 to get a meade DSI to work and a Stalight camera I had. 64bit may cause an issue eventually with drivers for something or other but you can reinstall with 32bit using the same product key, you'd just need the disk.
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