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i think this is gonna last 1 week with me then i'm back to old school windows look, i
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Stupid question, but how do you upgrade to Windows Vista?
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Stupid question, but how do you upgrade to Windows Vista?
you can buy it .... that's the legal way ... :/
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Stupid question, but how do you upgrade to Windows Vista?
you can buy it .... that's the legal way ... :/
Will havta look into that.
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I would suggest giving Vista a year or so to iron out the kinks, any new operating system is bound to have issues in the beginning.
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Quote from: GnRFL on January 30, 2007, 06:05:15 PM
I would suggest giving Vista a year or so to iron out the kinks, any new operating system is bound to have issues in the beginning.
agreed. at least a year. nothing is going to be compatible with vista yet.
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Gotta love Microsoft... One thing that I don't like though is when people say that Vista is copying Mac... They really are not and this video proves it:
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One thing I'm disappointed and highly pissed about is that you cannot get an upgrade price to upgrade from XP Professional to Vista Home Premium. I've heard the Business version of Vista sucks ass compared to the Home Premium one. It costs more, but has less media friendly features. XP Pro is no different than Home from what I can tell, and yet I got it because Dell "recommends" it on their website when you buy a computer from them. That's what they were doing as recently as last year anyway. XP Pro costs more, but the only way to get the features of Vista Home Premium is to pay EVEN MORE for Vista Ultimate.
The only way an XP Pro user can get Vista Home Premium is to do a clean install, meaning you pay full price instead of the upgrade price that XP Home users get despite the fact that they paid LESS for XP Home in the first place than you did for XP Pro. What a ripoff is all I have to say!
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Ill wait a yr or so before I bother with vista, hell I used WindowsME up untill last March on a cp that was almost 7 yrs old and it worked fine. Bought a new cp then and Windows Xp is just fine for me now. MY cp is compatable with Vista I need no upgrades but Ill wait to the kinks are worked out.
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persoanlly im coping fine on windows 2000 proffessional. i hated XP when i put it on, all shit n sticky and an annoying firewall which never stopped popping up.
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Quote from: mrlee on January 30, 2007, 07:16:25 PM
persoanlly im coping fine on windows 2000 proffessional. i hated XP when i put it on, all shit n sticky and an annoying firewall which never stopped popping up.
What? You can turn the firewall off or change the way it alerts you.
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Quote from: GNRfan2008 on January 30, 2007, 07:01:01 PM
One thing I'm disappointed and highly pissed about is that you cannot get an upgrade price to upgrade from XP Professional to Vista Home Premium. I've heard the Business version of Vista sucks ass compared to the Home Premium one. It costs more, but has less media friendly features. XP Pro is no different than Home from what I can tell, and yet I got it because Dell "recommends" it on their website when you buy a computer from them. That's what they were doing as recently as last year anyway. XP Pro costs more, but the only way to get the features of Vista Home Premium is to pay EVEN MORE for Vista Ultimate.
The only way an XP Pro user can get Vista Home Premium is to do a clean install, meaning you pay full price instead of the upgrade price that XP Home users get despite the fact that they paid LESS for XP Home in the first place than you did for XP Pro. What a ripoff is all I have to say!
yeah i don't like how they are doing the upgrade versions with vista. when i finally do get vista ill get the full version. i do not want to have to install xp everytime i wanna reinstall vista cleanly.
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ill be waiting a while myself for one i don't have the money for it. two my windows drive is only 10 gigs and you need 15 free for all the temp files during the install. i waited awhile with xp too. i don't think i got it before the first service pack.
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Quote from: mrlee on January 30, 2007, 07:16:25 PM
persoanlly im coping fine on windows 2000 proffessional. i hated XP when i put it on, all shit n sticky and an annoying firewall which never stopped popping up.
Firewall is one click to turn it off permanently, and the skins are disableable ... Someone using Win200 shouldn't usually have a problem with these kinds of things ... ubergeeks and shit normally say the whole "I use Windows 2000 Pro because it's better" ....
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Well, I've discovered that there is a nice alternative. You can buy OEM versions of Vista for like half price from Amazon and NewEgg for instance. The only thing is, there is zero support for it. OEM versions are what Dell, Sony, etc. put on their machines and that is why they are required to provide support for the user. Home Premium is $120 (a full version, not an upgrade) at NewEgg.com with $5 shipping. Amazon has it for for $130 with free shipping. Ultimate is $200 with $5 shipping at NewEgg.com and $220 with free shipping from Amazon. Pretty cool deal if ya ask me!
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Quote from: GNRfan2008 on January 30, 2007, 08:44:14 PM
Well, I've discovered that there is a nice alternative. You can buy OEM versions of Vista for like half price from Amazon and NewEgg for instance. The only thing is, there is zero support for it. OEM versions are what Dell, Sony, etc. put on their machines and that is why they are required to provide support for the user. Home Premium is $120 (a full version, not an upgrade) at NewEgg.com with $5 shipping. Amazon has it for for $130 with free shipping. Ultimate is $200 with $5 shipping at NewEgg.com and $220 with free shipping from Amazon. Pretty cool deal if ya ask me!
So to buy the Dell version, I'd need a Dell computer, right?
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Quote from: mrlee on January 30, 2007, 07:16:25 PM
persoanlly im coping fine on windows 2000 proffessional. i hated XP when i put it on, all shit n sticky and an annoying firewall which never stopped popping up.
Firewall is one click to turn it off permanently, and the skins are disableable ... Someone using Win200 shouldn't usually have a problem with these kinds of things ... ubergeeks and shit normally say the whole "I use Windows 2000 Pro because it's better" ....
well not really with sp2 if you don't stop the security center service and the firewall service the damn thing keeps coming back.
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Quote from: GNRfan2008 on January 30, 2007, 08:44:14 PM
Well, I've discovered that there is a nice alternative. You can buy OEM versions of Vista for like half price from Amazon and NewEgg for instance. The only thing is, there is zero support for it. OEM versions are what Dell, Sony, etc. put on their machines and that is why they are required to provide support for the user. Home Premium is $120 (a full version, not an upgrade) at NewEgg.com with $5 shipping. Amazon has it for for $130 with free shipping. Ultimate is $200 with $5 shipping at NewEgg.com and $220 with free shipping from Amazon. Pretty cool deal if ya ask me!
So to buy the Dell version, I'd need a Dell computer, right?
No. You can buy the OEM version (they sell it to Dell or whoever and THEN Dell installs the operating system on the computer, THEN Dell installs their own Help thing for the Start Menu on the computer). You can put an OEM version of Vista on any computer that has enough juice (processing power, RAM, and a large enough hard drive) to run it.
Check it out:
http://www.newegg.com/msvista/vista_products.html
Home Premium is the one that most users will want. "Basic" is no better than XP and "Business" is a very stripped down version of Vista but not quite as stripped down as "Basic."
"Ultimate" is the best one of course, but the extra features over Home Premium aren't that great in my opinion.
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Quote from: GNRfan2008 on January 30, 2007, 08:44:14 PM
Well, I've discovered that there is a nice alternative. You can buy OEM versions of Vista for like half price from Amazon and NewEgg for instance. The only thing is, there is zero support for it. OEM versions are what Dell, Sony, etc. put on their machines and that is why they are required to provide support for the user. Home Premium is $120 (a full version, not an upgrade) at NewEgg.com with $5 shipping. Amazon has it for for $130 with free shipping. Ultimate is $200 with $5 shipping at NewEgg.com and $220 with free shipping from Amazon. Pretty cool deal if ya ask me!
another thing about oem though good luck changing hardware. i hear its not going to be as easy as calling and reactivating. one review i saw on newegg says if your system dies and you have the oem the os dies with it. the person claims to have called microsoft several times and confirmed this.
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Quote from: GNRfan2008 on January 30, 2007, 08:44:14 PM
Well, I've discovered that there is a nice alternative. You can buy OEM versions of Vista for like half price from Amazon and NewEgg for instance. The only thing is, there is zero support for it. OEM versions are what Dell, Sony, etc. put on their machines and that is why they are required to provide support for the user. Home Premium is $120 (a full version, not an upgrade) at NewEgg.com with $5 shipping. Amazon has it for for $130 with free shipping. Ultimate is $200 with $5 shipping at NewEgg.com and $220 with free shipping from Amazon. Pretty cool deal if ya ask me!
another thing about oem though good luck changing hardware. i hear its not going to be as easy as calling and reactivating. one review i saw on newegg says if your system dies and you have the oem the os dies with it. the person claims to have called microsoft several times and confirmed this.
By system dying, are you referring to a crash from viruses, etc. or the hardware itself dying? Cuz if it's just from viruses, then you can probably reinstall it. But if you're referring to the hardware, then that's the risk you take I guess.
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