you can get it both ways. I got mine @best buy with xp preloaded for $399.99 the only thing I else I did was add ram. it comes with 512mb. screen resolution is 800x480 but you can run 800x600, you just have to scroll the screen up and down a little. after installing office, avg, yahoo messenger, firefox, vlc media player and k-lite co-deck pack I have 1.2 gigs free and i got a 4gig sd card installed for the d drive and also an 8 gig pen drive for more storage, and if i ever need to dock it to my main computer i have a 750 gig external that backs up all my goodies! another neat feature is it has no moving parts! no ide/sata hard drive. it uses solid state memory, which is faster then typical drives, and doesn't even have a fan.