Dan Green wrote: > > He doesn’t have a lot of money, maybe $300. I’ve seen some stuff new for > this price. My only concern is everything has Vista installed (XP > downgrade costs more!) > > Besides not trusting Vista I am likely going to be combination training > and tech support person and have so far avoided Vista. Try Ubuntu Linux -- it's easy and secure. There is lots of support for it online. It runs well on older machines. http://www.ubuntu.com/ Josh