I am going to buy a laptop and I want one that will play my older games and newer games. Examples: Age of empires, Sims, Fallout 3, Solar Empire. From what I've read, I understand that some are 16 bit and are only compatible with 32 bit which is backwards compatible. So I guess i need a laptop which is both 32 and 64 boot-able. I am not able to go into registry and manipulate things nor do I have time for that. I want it to work on all my games right out of the box. I would prefer Win XP because Win 7 is really difficult for me. I have an 8 year old desktop with Win XP and It works fairly well without me having to put a lot of maintenance into it. But If all I can get is Win 7 on a laptop, It has to be a laptop which doesn't have a history for having a lot of issues. Please advise me on various laptops that fit this description. Thank You.