I am delighted with my Advent 4211 ( a rebadged MSI Wind,) 80gb of hard drive so no problems with XP. I run a wireless network at home (all PCs) and network the optical drives, so transferring from CD/DVD is no problem. I also take films directly from DVD on my desktop and transfer then straight to the Advent to view whilst away from home (legally - of course) along with BBC iplayer content.