New laptops with WinXP drivers?

[cheredenine]

Hello all,

 

I'm trying to get a quote for a laptop that is still compatible with WinXP and so has drivers readily available. This is causing my suppliers some trouble, however. Does anyone know of a make/model that fits the bill, whilst still being reasonably good value and not over specificed? We're planning a move to Win7, but for the moment i don't want both on the network causing profile confusions, etc.

 

Cheers!

[Jamo]

Do you have roaming profiles? The V2 profile issue will only happen if you have roaming profiles.

[cheredenine]

We do have roaming profiles for staff, unfortunately, so this is a concern!

[witch]

Don't know if you were thinking of refurbs, but @ict-direct have some nice Lenovo T61s that have XP drivers available

[TomTomGo]

Just bought some of these as they had XP Drivers available on the Lenovo Support site:

 

Lenovo E530s (3259-MKG) - Available Here

[Valentine]

We use Lenovo E530 which work fine with XP.

 

A problem you may have depending on how you do licensing is you will find it very hard to buy Laptops with Windows 7 licenses (you aren't allowed to downgrade Windows 8 to XP). Even laptops advertised as "Windows 7 laptops" will probably have a Windows 8 license.

[Jamo]

I personally would use the opportunity to test Windows 7 and get it up and running. The roaming profile thing isn't the end of the world there are guides on how to overcome this from this forum

[VeryPC_Tom_M]

The Fujitsu Lifebook AH512 have XP Drivers available on the website.

[cheredenine]

Thanks for the suggestions! We're looking at a very small quantity to buy at the moment and so i don't want to spend any time setting up for a single Win7 device knowing that i'll be going Win7 site wide sometime (hopefully) soon, thereby avoiding the profiles issue completely. Plans may change, however!