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windows 7 upgrade price

  • 25-10-2009 12:51pm
    #1
    dny123456
    Closed Accounts Posts: 431 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Bought a laptop last year with Vista bundled. Couldn't use due to incompatibly issues, so I installed XP and have been using that since. Now windows 7 has come out, everyone's saying great things about it, I'd like to get it. But looking at the prices it looks like it's going to cost over a hundred Euro to 'upgrade'. Is there much point in waiting? i.e. will the upgrade price reduce in time?

    <rant>To be honest I'm a bit pissed off with them, as for me windows 7, is just the final version of Vista. Vista was not fit for purpose </rant>


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  • #2
    EKRIUQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,386 ✭✭✭EKRIUQ


    The way some people go on about Vista you'd swear it was a UNIX OS, last year Vista was perfectly capable of running all applications, it only had problems in the beginning, why not upgrade again to vista then upgrade Windows 7 it will work out cheaper.


  • #3
    dny123456
    Closed Accounts Posts: 431 ✭✭dny123456


    mmm, no i think you may have misunderstood me. I still have vista on the main partition and a valid license, I just never use it. Main problem I had with it was display over HDMI onto my TV, which I could do under Vista, but it is a bit of a pain as it requires reboots, which XP doesn't. Also speed was noticably degraded with Vista.

    I don't use unix at home, so my expectations are not that I have that level of reliability. As good as XP, would have being fine for me.

    Anyway, never mind all that... main question is, will the upgrade price reduce in time?


  • #4
    Venom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    EKRIUQ wrote: »
    The way some people go on about Vista you'd swear it was a UNIX OS, last year Vista was perfectly capable of running all applications, it only had problems in the beginning, why not upgrade again to vista then upgrade Windows 7 it will work out cheaper.

    +1

    The only problem Iv ever had running Vista 64bit was the creative gameport driver issue. Win7 builds on this stability with ease of use and faster running.


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