DavidR
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Same reason why people are still using win98, old systems. The Dell XPS, is no spring chicken.
Since XP SP1 came out in September 9, 2002 and XP SP2 in August 25, 2004, so somewhere in between those two dated for this system coming from Dell, they would also be likely to get the SP2 early. So my guess on the age of this system is sometime in 2003 so there won’t be much RAM or HDD space, etc. etc.
It is his decision to make, so long as he knows the shortcomings of his choice.