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Vista: Worth £40?
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Vista: Worth £40?
How did you manage the educational discount from ebuyer?
If your also after new microsoft software see if your uni is listed on www.studentoptions.com, they offer extremly good offers and discounts.
If your also after new microsoft software see if your uni is listed on www.studentoptions.com, they offer extremly good offers and discounts.
jacko-27
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I downloaded Vista Ultimate for free 
and put it on my laptop. (on my partioned D: drive so i can still boot XP if i want to) - i've had no problems so far and it seems to be at least as fast as XP at booting and running programs and for some reason office 2007 works on it OK - but didn't on my XP however i don't reckon it's worth buying it yet, you might as well wait until you buy a laptop with it pre-installed.
and put it on my laptop. (on my partioned D: drive so i can still boot XP if i want to) - i've had no problems so far and it seems to be at least as fast as XP at booting and running programs and for some reason office 2007 works on it OK - but didn't on my XP however i don't reckon it's worth buying it yet, you might as well wait until you buy a laptop with it pre-installed.
I don't get it, how can you "not qualify" for OEM? Thought OEM just meant it was the basic product and nowt more i.e. no fancy box/manuals etc
Personally I'd avoid Vista till at least SP1,or even SP2. Theres nothing that won't run on XP that'll run on Vista, it's just got more bells and whistles.
Personally I'd avoid Vista till at least SP1,or even SP2. Theres nothing that won't run on XP that'll run on Vista, it's just got more bells and whistles.
OP
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No, OEM in this sense means you're supposed to be a system builder and it will be tied to the original mainboard it is installed on. The fact that the edu version is cheapest for me also suggests the better option
Well for what it's worth, I built myself a new PC back in February and put Vista Home Premium on it, $190 (about 70 pounds), and it worked perfectly. Everything supported fine, all my software runs well, nice and fast, sleeps and suspends properly at last, User Account Control prevents bad software from running un-noticed (basically, it makes you not-an-Administrator unless you answer the 'annoying' prompts 'Allow', so although clicking 'Allow' may seem inconvenient, it saves you having to log off and on as two separate accounts).
There's no way I'd go back to XP, knowing that future software probably won't be supported and the updates will run out some day.
Cheers,
-Alex
There's no way I'd go back to XP, knowing that future software probably won't be supported and the updates will run out some day.
Cheers,
-Alex
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I purchased Vista Ultimate OEM from Aria about 5 months ago and I love it. You do need a pretty beefy system to run it, but if you give it enough resources it will surpass XP in terms of speed. I am running Vista on the exact same computer as I was running XP on and Vista boots up twice as fast as XP did, programs load faster thanks to SuperFetch and the whole system just seems a lot smoother and reliable.
Vista worked perfectly out of the box with all of my hardware and all of my old software, no complaints there either.
I expect that all of the people that bash Vista either haven't tried it or their hardware was too slow and outdated to run it properly.
I say that if you can pick a copy up for £40 then go for it, you won't be disappointed.
I bought my PC about 3 months before Vistas release. It was not Vista compatable due to my TV tuner being the only thing that won't work.
This OEM thing being tied to the motherboard I don't get. My OEM copy of XP media centre edition has been installed on 2 different PCs and registered with no problems!!
I have had XP MCE installed and gone to Vista and back to XP MCE with no probs.
To be honest the only diiference noticeable between XP and Vista is the Aero transparent theme, the side bar, start button made into a circle with just the logo, and a slight alteration to the start menu.
I will reinstall Vista when I have got SP1.
This OEM thing being tied to the motherboard I don't get. My OEM copy of XP media centre edition has been installed on 2 different PCs and registered with no problems!!
I have had XP MCE installed and gone to Vista and back to XP MCE with no probs.
To be honest the only diiference noticeable between XP and Vista is the Aero transparent theme, the side bar, start button made into a circle with just the logo, and a slight alteration to the start menu.
I will reinstall Vista when I have got SP1.
My Laptop came with Vista. i got shot of it after a week, it's not worth a pint of pi$$. worst OS out at the moment. I'm running XP pro now and my laptop dosent have a heart attack everytime i open an app now. Vista is too power hungry and would require the computeing power of my desktop to try and run properly. keep XP mate.
