Windows 7 Home Premium E *Preorder*[£53.56(VAT+deliver incl.)@Amazon]

podge3

coldfire1x wrote: »

Good tip, just did and saved £4.98, happy days.

Thanks

theCzar wrote: »

Saved myself 5 GBP too, W7 for 47 GBP... sweet.

Is it not £5 plus 21.5% vat?

SirLemonhead

how exactly do you change it? I don't want to accidentally cancel my order :pac:

The_Conductor

SirLemonhead wrote: »

how exactly do you change it? I don't want to accidentally cancel my order :pac:

Modify order tab- change delivery method.

RobertFoster

SirLemonhead wrote: »

how exactly do you change it? I don't want to accidentally cancel my order :pac:

Click Your Account in the top right corner > Click the View Recent and Open Orders button > Log in > Click the View or Change Order button > Click Delivery Option: Change > Select FREE Super Saver Delivery and click Confirm

theCzar

podge3 wrote: »

Is it not £5 plus 21.5% vat?

yeah, I think you're right... 6GBP, huzzah.

SirLemonhead

thanks guys!

dubmick

my copy of Windows 7 has just shipped with an Post. Total price: £47.51

podge3

dubmick wrote: »

my copy of Windows 7 has just shipped with an Post. Total price: £47.51

Mine too .

smemon

podge3 wrote: »

Mine too .

yeah they've all been sent out today it seems... should have it by Friday

The_Conductor

Mine hasn't shipped- still down as 'not despatched yet'.......

kowloon

This may have been mentioned before in the thread, but there are student discounts available, 30 quid I think, some students can even get free.

Moon54

I wonder how the UK postal strike is going to affect delivery times on this?

coldfire1x

Yes, mine has been shipped too.

Qwerty?

coldfire1x wrote: »

Yes, mine has been shipped too.

Yep, mine too.

Niska

Mine shipped today, as well.

I wonder how the UK postal strike is going to affect delivery times on this?

The order states "1 package via An Post", so hopefully not at all. (And, hopefully, by Friday.)

nowuckenfurries

Mine has shipped too
One of the top BA's Ruu Tks

Moon54

Niska wrote: »

... so hopefully not at all. (And, hopefully, by Friday.)

My Windows 7 Pro has just been shipped from ebuyer.com via Parcel Force, so hopefully the UK postage strike won't affect it's delivery.

Big thanks to the OP, cheers.

The_Conductor

My Amazon order dispatched this evening too....... Cheers OP

Royale with Cheese

Was going to order this but decided I didn't have the money.

Pretty glad I didn't, ended up doing a college course where I get it for free. Downloaded my copy today. Wooo.

suppafly

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

Was going to order this but decided I didn't have the money.

Pretty glad I didn't, ended up doing a college course where I get it for free. Downloaded my copy today. Wooo.

what college course is that? Is windows 7 available on Dreamspark?

Do-more

Postman just delivered mine!

Total cost £47.51

Cheers Ruu and those who suggested changing to "Super Saver" delivery.

RobertFoster

Mine arrived today too. Pity I missed the launch events for the free Ultimate, but €53 wasn't too bad I suppose.

The_Conductor

RobertFoster wrote: »

Mine arrived today too. Pity I missed the launch events for the free Ultimate, but €53 wasn't too bad I suppose.

I'm loading it up on an Acer Revo 360 as I speak- its saying estimated time for upgrade- 4 hours :eek:

green123

you really did get a great deal here for about 50 euro
dell are charging 20 euro to ship the free upgrades :eek:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055715996

godtabh

smccarrick wrote: »

I'm loading it up on an Acer Revo 360 as I speak- its saying estimated time for upgrade- 4 hours :eek:

I did ultimate on my Dell M65 at the week end as part of a dual boot and took no more than 20 minutes. Had to install a 64 bit graphics driver and thats the only issue I had

TheDriver

put the ultimate edition on my pc as dual boot 2 night ago, took about 30 mins overall. Nice fast system though lot of my hardware won't work but impressed OS has lots of drivers included.

godtabh

TheDriver wrote: »

put the ultimate edition on my pc as dual boot 2 night ago, took about 30 mins overall. Nice fast system though lot of my hardware won't work but impressed OS has lots of drivers included.

What kind of hardware didnt work?

kendragon

Mine arrived this morning... Thanks again OP. Great value... I was sorry I didnt get one for my wife's laptop as well.

dubmick

I've been informed that my copy has arrived but that the postman broke my letterbox in the process :eek:

The_Conductor

dubmick wrote: »

I've been informed that my copy has arrived but that the postman broke my letterbox in the process :eek:

Broke your letter box?
How?
(visions of a postie attacking the letterbox with an amazon package......)

dubmick

haha

he forced the package in and something broke on the inside, some gold strip.

The_Conductor

dubmick wrote: »

haha

he forced the package in and something broke on the inside, some gold strip.

Sounds like he has dislocated the spring which keeps the flap down- get a screwdriver and force it back over the bronze strip and presto your postbox fixed again. (careful though- if you catch your finger in the spring- you can take a lump out of it).

Prisoner6409

My copy of Win 7 HP arrived today from amazon and with the free shipping the total cost is £47.51GBP which is great value. It is also the full version(GFC-00025), the one Komplett is charging €178.50 for (http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=498271), so thanks to RUU for the heads up.

TheDriver

by hardware, I meant a usb scanner which only has xp drivers, that kind of thing. Old stuff that I should get rid of!

The_Conductor

TheDriver wrote: »

by hardware, I meant a usb scanner which only has xp drivers, that kind of thing. Old stuff that I should get rid of!

Install it in Windows 7- and when installing the drivers- rightclick and install in 'compatability mode'......

dubmick

how is everyone installing this....clean boot, dual boot, upgrade?

oceanclub

dubmick wrote: »

how is everyone installing this....clean boot, dual boot, upgrade?

I have a Dell Vista laptop and desktop with XP; for the desktop, reckon will dual-boot for a while, don't want to have to reinstall all my games, and some may not work.

With laptop, happy enough to wipe it, it was a pain to use with Vista!

P.

The_Conductor

Upgrade on Vista- clean install on an XP system. The clean install took about 30 mins- the upgrade well over 2 and a half hours.....

pauly3

Better to upgrade on a clean system. I have installed Windows 7 on many laptops recently and find that if you check your automatic updates a few minutes after the install you will find most of the missing drivers waiting to be downloaded. Driver support is very good, as Windows 7 is essentially Vista done right.

Best to copy your personal files to a USB key and format your system partition (Windows 7 will do that for you during the install). If you have 2GB or more of RAM install the 64-bit version. For 1GB RAM stick with the 32-bit. Windows 7 runs fine on netbooks, not just the Starter Edition. It also runs well on older PCs, such as Pentium 4s, as long as you upgrade the RAM to 1GB or more.

On a side note, I was in Harvey Norman this evening and priced Home Premium at €199 and Ultimate at €319. Glad I attended the launch in DIT last Thursday!
I did get some free pens and mints, emblazoned with the Windows 7 logo

broker2008

I did see the initial post but was of the view that Vista would be grand but after further months of frustrations I have decided following reviews to upgrade. Where is the cheapest place to buy the home edition ?

The_Conductor

broker2008 wrote: »

I did see the initial post but was of the view that Vista would be grand but after further months of frustrations I have decided following reviews to upgrade. Where is the cheapest place to buy the home edition ?

There appear to be a few copies floating around adverts? (probably people who pre-ordered more copies than they need). If you're doing an in-situ upgrade- disable any antivirus software or disk writing software (such as In-CD)- it'll save on error messages.

k123456

I am looking for a copy of win7 (home edition) , intend to install on a newly purchased hard drive, so will be afresh install not an upgrade, cant see it on Amazon for the £47ish mark, it seems to be approx £80. Could someone include a link to it from Amazon or wherever, trying to avoid paying too much for it

Thanks

madhatter76

Your're a few weeks to late. This was a special pre order promotion.
You would need to pay now the original retail price or get it with a new computer.

The_Conductor

Windows 7 Home Premium OEM can be gotten for around £65-70 +VAT from any of the computer upgrade sites (try scan.co.uk, aria.co.uk, overclockers.co.uk, komplett.ie etc). If possible get the 64bit version (with OEM you don't get both)

Moon54

I just got my Windows 7 Pro delivered, very nice

Btw, a few people have been asking me about buying Windows 7 and the best price I can find is €95 on the Komplett.ie website;

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=500038

It's Home Premium, OEM & 32-bit. Can anyone verify if it is the full version? (i.e. not upgrade)

Basq

Moon54 wrote: »

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=500038

It's OEM & 32-bit. Can anyone verify if it is the full version? (i.e. not upgrade)

Nah.. I'd say it's full version, as they appear selling the Upgrade version for a €86.50

joeswatch

ebuyer.com seems to be the cheapest at 80 sterling each for OEM 32 and OEM 64 and 90 sterling for the complete package - all home premium. Sorry but I didn't check the postage.

Mmcd

Pc World have the upgrade for about €75
I dont know if they post here or not though!

Moon54

basquille wrote: »

Nah.. I'd say it's full version, as they appear selling the Upgrade version for a €86.50

Ahh great, Thx

Do-more

Is it OK to privately buy a US version of Windows 7 with the 3 licence family pack?

I have 3 PC's/laptops in the house and this seems like the cheapest option, but I don't want to find out when I go to activate it that there is some regional restriction.