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Don't buy Vista OEM...
Veiled_light
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I know the price of £350-400 (in the UK about $700 US) is very expensive for retail but you can download it off of BT or try get a cheaper version if you need it that much, otherwise wait for a cheaper retail version. WIndows Vista wont be needed until DX10 starts kicking in mid 2008 tbh and probally 2009 before it becomes in every game.
Anyways the OEM version can only be installed on one peice of hardware, you wont be able to install it on any other PC ever again. It's no use to the home user.
Windows OEM is £125 and Retail is about £350.
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Im guessing this only applies to EU and UK customers.. and chinese ones..
In china probably around 1 dollar
In the US anyways.
"There's no star system Slave I can't reach, and there's no planet I can't find. There's nowhere in the Galaxy for you to run. Might as well give up now."
Boba Fett
While I'm "buying" it off of BitTorrent right now, there are draw backs as Spath said.
You can't get the service packs, updates or anything off of window's because you need to validate you version of windows and it will come up as "not genuine".
I bought vista home premium for $120.00 USD. OEM on Newegg.com
Not going to buy Vista untill it actually deserves to be called Final... it's so buggy is really should be in alpha state right now.
I have the VISTA RTM and went to microsoft event and stole a box full of RTM with the keys printed on the sleeve.
:P
vista is the shid
vista will watch which programms you install
if they dont want you to use a programm you wont be able to isntall it
(hail to tcpa)
and their overhyped dx10 is more like dx9.1
nothing really new besides new fakes
and dont forget how much hardware power vista demands
and for what?
some new functions noone really needs (besides industry x.x)
so i stay with xp
and if the hackers cant crack the shid out of it i will change to linux
Pi*1337/100 = 42
As with everything until I have somthing that actally REQUIRES me to buy Vista I an't touching it with a barge poll..
Vista is the software equililent of buying a HD DVD/Blu Ray product atm, paying overpriced amounts just because it's 'new' but it's not really supported or used fully until at least 1-2 years down the line when it's going to possible be half or 1/3 the price it is now
Bring on the WARRRRGGHH!
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I'm not saying don't buy Vista, i'm saying leave the OEM version and buy the retail. It's veery expensive for retail atm so you'll probally not be able to afford it though.
look closer or buy some glasses
my ava has blonde hair bebop got black
(looked up on google if my ava was really similiar to him)
btw linux can run also popular games like ut04 / wow etc
its just more complicated than windows
and i can say it again vista is junk
only problem is that
if we want to play always the newest games
we will be more or less forced to use it after a year or so
Pi*1337/100 = 42
Vista SP1 is due out in March. I'll probably wait until after that to even consider buying it.
Id run that past your legal people if I were you. Microsoft doesnt put OS licensing into their Enterprise agreements any more and Select required you to purchases each copy you install albeit at a pre-agreed price. Of course with a Select/Enterprise install CD you can put it pretty much wherever you want and they probably will never find out, but thats a different story.
Just checked and I guess they moved the Service Pack release date. It now reads:
I'll need to read about UEFI. I'm not sure how they are going to do that without the hardware manufacturers buy-in.
Just checked and I guess they moved the Service Pack release date. It now reads:
I'll need to read about UEFI. I'm not sure how they are going to do that without the hardware manufacturers buy-in.
That information is ages old. Not only has the new OS not been called Longhorn in over a year, but its refering to Q4 2006, back before Vista was delayed from Q3 2006 to January 30th."There's no star system Slave I can't reach, and there's no planet I can't find. There's nowhere in the Galaxy for you to run. Might as well give up now."
Boba Fett
Just checked and I guess they moved the Service Pack release date. It now reads:
I'll need to read about UEFI. I'm not sure how they are going to do that without the hardware manufacturers buy-in.
That information is ages old. Not only has the new OS not been called Longhorn in over a year, but its refering to Q4 2006, back before Vista was delayed from Q3 2006 to January 30th.The new server os is still called longhorn
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I still dont know if i should "buy" vista.
that would be barely 10% more
if you mean the normal version -that would be arround 500€
~66% more
Pi*1337/100 = 42