I believe that Dell will still sell you a notebook with win xp and not vista. A few months ago I bought a Dell Latitude 420 with win xp. It has the dvd drive separate. The computer itself is only 3 pounds. It is only a 12 inch screen. I got it mainly for travel. I think it is about the lightest available. It has wireless built in. The only drawback is the disk drive is slow. The drive speed is 4000 something which in todays world is not very fast. Not too much of a problem. An individual can buy from the small business site which is where the latitude is by just using your name as the business name.