"J. Clarke" wrote
Lee Michaels wrote:
"mac davis" wrote

OH.. now that we have 2 vista machines, one for home and one for
our
karaoke
gig, (our karaoke software kicks ass on Vista), Gateway is now
offering a "downgrade" to XP on new machines..

Be warned.

I needed XP to run my software, so I "downgraded". The downgraded
XP
does not run as well as the original XP.

The "downgraded XP" is the same XP as any other XP.

I have run them side by side. The downgraded one is not the same.