I have a Sony Laptop with an integrated wireless card, and im planning on upgrading to XP pro from home. Im wondering if pro will have the drivers included for my computer. (Wireless, ethernet, graphics, Hibernate option on power button). Any info will help. Thanks.

I don't see any reason why it won't. Afterall, it's an "advanced" version of XP, the real changes will be in security and admin areas, not in the area of hardware support. I haven't run into anything yet that XP can't detect in my case. Worse case scenario probably is you having to go to the hardware vendor website and get the drivers, and I doubt you'll have to.

I'll second that. I haven't had to go looking for ANY drivers, for any of my hardware. It's an awesome OS. I was once thinking seriously of going to Linux for better stability, but the P&P and driver handling is just so good, I don't see any reason to look any further. MS has finally got it right, and danged if it aint about time, too. If they can just get a handle on the security side of it, we'll really have something. ;) Bob

try using the compatability wizard on the pro cd, that will check for any potential problems before you install xp pro. takes five minutes and saves hours of problem solving Time is the universe's tool,used to stop everything happening at the once.

Ok, the only thing im not sure about are the proprietary sony things. Another thing, can you update from home to pro without formatting? ill do a clean install anyway, just wondering.(havnt gotten it yet).

I have xp pro running on a p3 600mhz with 384megs of pc133 ram. Makes the old girl run like a young kid. You're going to love it. As for the drivers, I asked a friend who has a sony laptop and he said the drivers come on a seperate cd. So after doing the install just pop in the driver cd and load what you need from it. HTH I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid...