Installing Vista on xp-preinst​alled t400

Hi,
I've found a t400 for a great price but it's only comes with xp preinstalled and no vista recovery. But I have an unused copy of a non-oem version of Vista 64 at home so I'm wondering if all the other lenovo software and drivers can be downloaded so that it will be the same thing as if I had bought a t400 with Vista preinstalled?
Thanks,
Staffan

a brody wrote:
I'm considering buying Parallels, VMWare, QEMU, Wintel for Mac OS X, or VirtualBox and either XP 2 32 bit, or 64 bit so I can play a few games and run Netflix's movie previews as well as install some old Windows 98 and 2000 compatible games, and maybe a few newer ones. Which of these virtualization environments is best in terms of security and speed when it comes to the Mac environment, and is least like to balk at a variety of peripherals connected?
I'm experimenting with VMWare and running Windows XP Pro SP2. It's running very well in contrast to some others. I picked trying VMWare because I've read it that VM was faster in performance than Parallels. But ultimately, if you want your MBP to run as fast in Windows as it does in OS X, you'll probably want to use Boot Camp, IMHO.
I'm curious, too, to see what others have done and their experiences.

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