It's old and slow, the touchpad's half stopped working, a couple of the buttons, epcially 'y' only work if you hit them harder and now i have a white bar going accros the screen. First, the white bar disappears when you force the screen anti-clockwise. Push away on the right, pull on the left. Can anyone come up with a way i can bodge this (you only need a very slight twisting force)? I've tried strimmer wire but it didn't work. So, i really don't want to buy another laptop until windows 7 comes out. But that's said to come out first thing in 2010, and i'll definitely need someone new by then. So would it be stupid buying a laptop with visa? Or should i maybe buy a laptop without an OS and stick with xp and then wait untill windows 7 comes out and buy it separately? Or just stick with vista? Does it really matter?