From Gateway Computers and the plains of South Dakota now comes the Gateway DX442XP ($1,000 direct).  Ths is a new twist on the $1,000 PC idea.  Instead of providing a unique graphics package, they took another route.  With  the DX442XP, Gateway  instead, pours the dollars into the processor, memory, and, in a novel reversal, the Windows XP Pro operating system (which costs Gateway money to support). In  my opinion, not forcing the purchaser to use the buggy Vista is a big plus.  In this day and age of Vista ubiquity on new PCs, the DX442XP rolls back the clock OS-wise but fills the system with today's hardware. If you have a lot of old applications that don't work with Vista and you need more power than you have now, this is your system.  Someone at Gateway had their thinking cap on when they dreamed up this machine.  I for one, am holding out for Windows 7.  See the rest of the article at PC Magazine's First Looks

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