Need Laptop buying advice [solved]

I am planning to buy a laptop with i3 or above processor. I would need XP and Windows7. Win7 professional and ultimate have XP mode which should do. However such laptops are costly and above my budget. So I was wondering if following options would work-
1] Buy a laptop with Windows Home basic or Premium and then install XP by creating partition. I have never done a partition so advice on it would be helpful.
2] Buy a laptop with DOS and install Window7 pro or ultimate(from here). Will I have issues with drivers in this case. Also which one is better 32bit or 64bit. Read that some softwares have issues about it. Are there games or softwares which would only run on 64bit? Or any such thing as – 32bit games or apps would run on 32bit and not on 64bit?
Answer #1
option 2 should be great…. about drivers, new laptops should have good support for windows 7 … then for xp, use xp mode
Answer #2
2] Just get a cheap laptop & install Windows 7. That will be fine.
Answer #3
What about drivers. I mean will I get a drivers CD which will be compatible with Win7 when I install it.
Answer #4
Win7 professional and ultimate have XP mode which should do.
All OS’s have compatibility mode
Buy a laptop with Windows Home basic or Premium and then install XP by creating partition. I have never done a partition so advice on it would be helpful.
Its do-able, theres a few guides search’em on google
Buy a laptop with DOS and install Window7 pro or ultimate(from here). Will I have issues with drivers in this case. Also which one is better 32bit or 64bit. Read that some softwares have issues about it.

You’d be better of sticking wit 7 unless your certain that the program won’t run there (still worth a test before changing OS’s). You won’t find any laptop with DOS on it only (DOS = Disk operating system) but you could ask if they could charge you less for a laptop without an OS. Its good to check that the laptop your getting has XP drivers support on the manufacturers homepage and depending on the RAM thats in the laptop, if its 4GB or more get a 64bit OS else get a 32bit. Compatibility shouldnt be a problem with 64bit OS’s unless its XP or Vista, 7’s changed
Answer #5
I would say DOS, then download DriverMagician or something, also I would go with 64bit, it runs faster.
Answer #6
Don’t worry about drivers, all you need is to Google your Laptop’s Model No. and you could get every single details you need Then download the drivers off the net
Answer #7
You'd be better of sticking wit 7 unless your certain that the program won't run there (still worth a test before changing OS's). You won't find any laptop with DOS on it only (DOS = Disk operating system) but you could ask if they could charge you less for a laptop without an OS. Its good to check that the laptop your getting has XP drivers support on the manufacturers homepage and depending on the RAM thats in the laptop, if its 4GB or more get a 64bit OS else get a 32bit. Compatibility shouldnt be a problem with 64bit OS's unless its XP or Vista, 7's changed
Thanks, you have cleared my doubts regarding 32-64 bit. Laptops with DOS is available(scarce though). Apart from softwares aren’t there games which run on XP. What would one do about that?
Answer #8
W7 is just great about drivers,never needed any drivers from media(CD,DVD. etc.) to get them properly installed in W7.