wow..great lawyer..wait...hows that gonna happen...and there is no point to using XP if your laptop will be slow on it, i've seen it run and it is slow but if you needed it for like a day or 2 it would be fine, but I would go with Windows 2000, Just keep in mind that if you use the NTFS system there is no going back, you will not be able to use windows 98 if you decide for some reason to go back