Windows Vista: Home Premium OEM

Dyre Straits · October 13th, 2007, 11:15 AM

For the time being, Micro Center, here in the USA, has the OEM version on sale for $79.99.

That's a really good price if you've been considering Vista at all. It's also the best version (from many users I've heard from) for Home Users. Ultimate is just so much overkill with a lot of unnecessary bloat.

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Edward · October 13th, 2007, 10:58 PM

If only they sold Windows xp sp2 in that price range.....

I think of building a computer for my brother, so i just might pick up this special - if he wants Vista.....

Zamoldac · October 13th, 2007, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Edward

If only they sold Windows xp sp2 in that price range.....

I think of building a computer for my brother, so i just might pick up this special - if he wants Vista.....

hope he will not, i'm using it for dx10 but i must say it sucks major time just a waste of time with endless confirmation dialog's and useless stuff

Edward · October 14th, 2007, 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Zamoldac

hope he will not, i'm using it for dx10 but i must say it sucks major time just a waste of time with endless confirmation dialog's and useless stuff

Hummm- Yea, i know what you mean... I had vista on my notebook- it worked okay- It was slower than with xp home ... I installed xp becuase i needed to use the stereo mixer (switch on the fly)on the notebook ... I do miss some features like on the fly search and the big icons... It is just a hog, vista....

You can disable the User acccount controls (the annoying dialog boxes)- It was a good idea, BADLY implemented- As is vista on a whole ... lol

Yea, I'm probably going to suggest to him to get xp for his new computer- Vista is still beta - kind of like win ME , no? He really wants to play unreal tournament 3 - He plays 2004 like all the time ... He is really good, "Supposedly" at it.... Headshot anyone?

[P.S. He is playing UR 2004 on my good, old emachine of mine : athlon xp2800 with an Nvidia 6200 - 1GB or RAM- He desperately needs a new machine LOL

I hope i can post a thread on some pointers and on my budget- You guys know all there has to be known about Gaming

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Chaos · October 14th, 2007, 05:00 AM

he will be happier with XP and can join the list of those praying for DX10 for XP

IModIntel · October 14th, 2007, 05:20 AM

I can beat that price, my mom's boyfriend who works at the college here, can get a real OEM version for 15$ CAD. I shouls get it next week, but i still don't know if I want vista in my system.

Unixlord · October 14th, 2007, 06:44 AM

Vista: Looks like you're trying to do something. Click allow on the following 10 prompts to receive further assistance. allow/deny?

Zamoldac · October 14th, 2007, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Unixlord

Vista: Looks like you're trying to do something. Click allow on the following 10 prompts to receive further assistance. allow/deny?

haha that's so funny ... but sad in the same time (also lame) because it's real

Dyre Straits · October 15th, 2007, 09:44 AM

Well, since I doubt the price will come down any lower, I've gone ahead and picked up a copy of the OEM Home Premium 32-bit version. It's installed now, but, I'm keeping XP Pro on a separate HD and switching boot drives between them.

We'll see how it goes. At least it's not a huge investment at this point.

Dyre Straits · November 5th, 2007, 04:58 AM

UPDATE:

I realized a little after the fact that I'd installed Vista on one of my slowest SATA drives.

So, I picked up a brand new 320 GB Hitachi ATA300 SATA drive today and 'ghosted' my Vista Home Premium onto it. That part went splendidly well! 1 hr, 13 min and it was done copying around 80 GB onto the full 300+ partition of the new drive.

However, I've done a LOT...and I mean A LOT....of hardware changes in the past three weeks since first installing Vista. So, the De-activation kicked in and I had to go through the Support option to get things back in good standing.

15 minutes on the phone and it was a done deal.

I'm beginning to forget what XP was like.