I gave my wife my acer monster laptop,she is using it as a desktop replacement.I love it but its 64 bit and some of the scripts I use dont play well with 64 bit. The pro about this laptop is its very upgradable you can add a second hard drive and the cpu can be upgraded all the up to a quad core. If I bought another I would have to either vista 32 or win7 32 on it right off the bat. Acer has the 32 bit drivers for that computer.
http://microcenter.com/single_produc...uct_id=0308765
or this one
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...033&CatId=2511
this one has xp on it and if I ever want to go to 64 bit I can put 8 gig of ram on it.
Of the two which would you pick? Also how big of fan of extended warranties are you?