buying windows XP

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Down thier throat or up thier ass? Either way, all us little prison bitches will eventually have to bend over and conform. Vista OEM isnt really much more than XP OEM if you get the home version though, just make sure your system can handle it. For now though, Vista may still not be worth the upgrade unless its comes on a new machine. At least XP has been cracked at this point so you can put it on another machine if yours breaks down (or at least reinstall it on the same one without jumping through Microsofts verification hoops). Thats by itself is reason enough for me not to upgrade.

XP is supposed to still remain commercially available for one year after Vista's release. Pity you purchaced the wrong version. Perhaps it still has some Ebay value.
 
eBay doesn't allow you to sell microsoft licenses and will remove the listings, I belive its against the EULA of the software to do so


-jeffrey
 
yeah i figured that would be the case ... its just too easy to cheat doing that
 
Isn't the minimum requirement for Vista multiple GHz with at least a gig of RAM?

There's still millions of people who don't have that kind of computer and who have no plans of ever buying a new computer like that...people who just check their email and surf the web.

Anyway, go with the OEM if it's a lot cheaper.
 
danny.guitar said:
Isn't the minimum requirement for Vista multiple GHz with at least a gig of RAM?

There's still millions of people who don't have that kind of computer and who have no plans of ever buying a new computer like that...people who just check their email and surf the web.

Anyway, go with the OEM if it's a lot cheaper.
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Absolute minimum (if you turn off all the features that seperate it from XP) is actually closer to 600 meg of RAM. 1 G is the requirement for full functionality, but you can squeeze by on less.

That doesn't stop Best Buy from selling brand new laptops with 512 MB of RAM and a big fat copy of Vista and all it's crappy trial software. One of my friends just got one; it's fun to watch it crawl through the startup process.
 
VomitHatSteve said:
That doesn't stop Best Buy from selling brand new laptops with 512 MB of RAM and a big fat copy of Vista and all it's crappy trial software. One of my friends just got one; it's fun to watch it crawl through the startup process.
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I think the Video card requirements got bumped up significantly for Vista too which may be an even bigger hurdle for laptops since more still have crappy video cards than not. When running graphics anyway, the speed and memory of your video card can often play an even bigger performance role than overall system speed/ram.

For anyone interested just the eye candy element of Vista, there are freely downloadable transformation packs out there that are supposed to make XP look like Vista (and supposively without any perfomance hit but I'm skeptical of that).
 
eBay doesn't allow you to sell microsoft licenses and will remove the listings, I belive its against the EULA of the software to do so
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Nope, thats not true at all.

There are about 10 pages of shrink wrapped XP OEM disks available. Take your pick and read feedbacks before buying. Technically, all that they have to include is a piece of hardware (i.e. a cable) to sell this to you. I have bought 3 copies for various machines and they all activated fine


WinXP Pro on Ebay
 
I bought xp pro oem (pc club) a couple months ago, and it came with a voucher for a free upgrade to Vista...figure I could dual boot and check it out (and wait for all the vendors to get their drivers and such up to Vista snuff) while still recording in xp....
 
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