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FWIW, I bought my 90-year-old mother an Acer laptop. It cost $395 and the specs are not great, but it came with Vista Home Basic. I tried it when I first started up the system and it was painful. However, the plan was to never keep Vista. I reformatted the hard drive and installed Ubuntu. My mother loves it, much more than the XP machine that was replaced.
BTW, I've been running PC-BSD for some time now and find it to be a very capable and secure OS.
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