well with laptop prices in 2009 likely to be under $600 for numerous choices of decent hardware, the notion of adding another $150 to the price just to boot the

well with laptop prices in 2009 likely to be under $600 for numerous choices of decent hardware, the notion of adding another $150 to the price just to boot the thing is no longer competitve. the pc vendors should just throw weight behind ubuntu, or go download freebsd7, do some work on wine tuning, and ship it. only 20% of people who bought vista will buy 7...the numbers are starting to dwindle, xp is and always will be the most used windows version