1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Omni (omni) http://rainbowdash.net/omni http://rainbowdash.net/notice/1816454 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/12231" class="url"><span class="fn nickname">darkw00d</span></a></span> What about Linux? It's completely free and Ubuntu and Linux Mint have been considered relatively beginner-friendly. You should definitely give them a try, perhaps you like it more than Windows (and, depending on where you buy it, you may be able to save a fair amount of money by ordering the laptop without OS and putting Linux on it yourself if you burn an installation CD, which also saves you from getting &quot;Laptop Company Registry Optimizer 2000&quot; and &quot;Laptop Company QuickBoot&quot; and similar junk pre-installed).\