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NS_Talon
  
| #1 posted October 10, 2009 at 7:23pm (EST)
edited October 10, 2009 at 7:23pm (EST) |
Bought it, made a Hackintosh, and now decided that I'll just stick with that until I can get Ultimate for cheap as a student. This is the Home Premium version. Looking for $70 shipped, post or PM if interested |
Xena
| | #2 posted October 10, 2009 at 8:23pm (EST) |
i am, just need to see how my funds are. i'm sick of Vista. |
DaSpanksters
| | #3 posted October 10, 2009 at 11:06pm (EST) |
If you're in college - it's only 30 dollars. |
NS_Talon
| | #4 posted October 10, 2009 at 11:51pm (EST) |
Yeah, unfortunately I'm not enrolled at the moment and by the time I am MS will be offering us Ultimate upgrades for $60 like they did for Vista. Ultimately, that version has some things I want and I don't actually need Home Premium now (and kinda need some spare change) |
sinnie
 
| | #5 posted October 11, 2009 at 10:31am (EST) |
any idea if the upgrade would work if you start with XP?
Steam: looneypumpkin |
Master_Z
| | #6 posted October 11, 2009 at 11:14am (EST) |
I don't think so sinnie; I think you have to have Vista. |
sinnie
| | #7 posted October 11, 2009 at 11:15am (EST) |
gay
Looks like I'll be forced into buying the full version then, and keeping XP on my laptop.... 
Steam: looneypumpkin |
NS_Talon
| | #8 posted October 11, 2009 at 12:45pm (EST) |
Not true, XP works (I'm 95% sure). Can you use it to upgrade? I'm not positive, but you can for sure do a clean install |
DaSpanksters
| | #9 posted October 11, 2009 at 2:23pm (EST) |
The answer is yes and no.
You can upgrade from XP to Win7, but you have to do a clean install. So, basically, it's going to wipe your hard drive.
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Master_Z
| | #10 posted October 11, 2009 at 2:34pm (EST) |
But if you have the upgrade, you can't simply wipe it and do that. That's called the OEM version. The upgrade basically transfers all your files and settings to the new version, which makes it a bit easier. I'm positive it's for Vista only. |
sinnie
| | #11 posted October 11, 2009 at 3:10pm (EST) |
Formatting is irrelevant to me, as I want to fresh install anyway. However I don't have a free key to use for XP since the copy I got is registered to my laptop. So I don't think I can use it as a "crutch" for the upgrade. I believe Microsoft would find it not genuine and reject it.
Steam: looneypumpkin |
NS_Talon
| | #12 posted October 11, 2009 at 3:58pm (EST) |
@ Master_Z
That's not true man. The upgrade version can be used to do a clean install, as long as you have a valid XP or Vista key. The OEM version just supplies a new key
@ sinnie
Meh, I've upgraded motherboards before and never had a problem sticking with my OEM key (MS considers a new motherboard to be the basis of a new computer) |
ryanflucas
 
| #13 posted October 11, 2009 at 8:09pm (EST)
edited October 11, 2009 at 8:12pm (EST) |
Either way I would recommend backing up your files and clean installing it, even if you are coming from Vista. I've had Windows 7 for about a month now (companies get it faster), done close to 15 installs. Even on quad core systems, it's much faster installing on a clean formatted drive. Thats usually true with Windows in general, but I installed on 3 quad core laptops running 7200rpm drives, 4gb ram and the system literally balked for 3 hours since it was an upgrade install. I was able to shave install time down to 30min on the same systems for clean installs. After those I just backed up my clients files and formatted all of their systems since I can rebuild a system from backup in about 45min.
The more files & larger programs you have installed, the longer the upgrade install takes. Either way, everything has worked fine in the end, it's just a matter of how patient you are. Remember, Office 2007 sounds like 1 program to us, but Windows 7 counted it as 115 programs so it must be counting modules vs 1 application suite. Upgrade advisor tends to cancel installation if you are running Mcafee 2009\2010 so uninstalling that first (to reinstall after) helps. Unauthorize your iTunes first if you buy thru the iTunes store. |
NS_Talon
| | #14 posted October 14, 2009 at 12:19pm (EST) |
Bump |
NS_Talon
| | #15 posted October 20, 2009 at 7:30pm (EST) |
Final bump, you might want to PM if you at all interested |
slugger
| | #16 posted October 22, 2009 at 11:35pm (EST) |
I got the premium upgrade version and it worked fine on XP, but I had to do a clean install. It's worth it though. |
icemanxp300
| | #17 posted October 26, 2009 at 4:22pm (EST) |
The college deal will that work on a new hard drive w/no OS on it? saying you have an xp key already from an older pc. |
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