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Vista Final has hit. which version are you getting?
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Vista Final has hit. which version are you getting?
Home Basic
5%
 5% 1
Home Premium
38%
 38% 7
Business
0%
 0% 0
Ultimate
55%
 55% 10
Starter (for any of our non European/US members)
0%
 0% 0
Voted : 4
Total Votes : 18
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:58 am Reply and quote this post
I too intend to stick with XP - probably until Vista SP1 comes out. When I do get Vista I'll probably get Home Premium
Contributed by Mike, iVirtua Active Member
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:11 am Reply and quote this post
Yeah I got it free from Technet, but if I was going to buy it, I wouldn't!!!! What's so good about Vista at the moment, just been playing BF2 on it and it is slower. Games are slower, and all you get is a little nicer looking interface. I'd wait till SP1, at least then it'll be a bit cheaper
Contributed by Tom_Allen, iVirtua Participating Member
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Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:43 am Reply and quote this post
I'm getting the Home Premium through the Toshiba Express Upgrade. That is going to be the bomb when I install it on this laptop.
Contributed by JesseBassett, iVirtua Active Member
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Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:52 am Reply and quote this post
the two games that i play the most right now are world of warcraft and Counterstrike....so since i don't do much else other than hit up some websites n talk on aim, i was thinking about just getting it...but is the gaming significantly slower?? or is it that the vista OS just wants more memory or speed to run at its peak?
Contributed by MiLLzZ, iVirtua Ultimate Contributor
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Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:44 am Reply and quote this post
defukt wrote:
I'm getting home premium for the time being (I'm pretty skint at the moment) but I'll get ultimate a bit further down the line. The only problem is I run about 5 machines and can't afford to spend a grand on vista for each of them so I think they'll be sticking with XP or moving to Debian linux.


MS is offering a "family deal"... Sorry guys, it apears to only be offered in North America now that I read the fine print.

Deal works like this: Buy the full edition of Vista Ultimate, and you are then given the option to purchase up to 2 full versions of Vista Home Premium for $50 each. MS sends you the serials and you use your Ultimate disc to install both of them on the other computers. Ultimate + 2 copies of Home Premium for $500 isn't to bad anyway... Windows Vista Family Discount. If you are in the UK, and you know someone stateside...  

Contributed by Kougar, iVirtua Participating Member
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Thu May 24, 2007 8:48 pm Reply and quote this post
I'm sticking with XP my computer could NEVER run Home Basic. You guys would die if you saw my Computer Stats.
Contributed by Knockout, iVirtua Premier Contributor
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Sun Jun 03, 2007 4:00 pm Reply and quote this post
Did you know the OEM edition of Vista Ultimate is about a 1/3rd of the price ex Microsoft Support (which you rarely use anyway).

Windows Vista Ultimate OEM from £100.42 on Froogle: http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=Vi...next&start=32
Windows Vista Ultimate Retai from 289.00 (but much more exspensive not online: http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=Vi...a=N&start=171

For reference, the £100.42 Vista OEM was found here: http://www.google.co.uk/product_url?q...p;gl=uk&hl=en

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Sat Jul 14, 2007 8:09 pm Reply and quote this post
I hear that Windows Vista OS is not fuly user friendly yet. I'll wait for the outstanding  bugs on it corrected before I buy it. If I buy it I am going to settle for the least expensive version to try it.
Contributed by turbino, iVirtua Premier Contributor
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Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:45 pm Reply and quote this post
Man Vista sucks lol.... I'm not paying 500$ on something that doesn't support that many stuff!

Tip, if you really want to buy vista, get an OEM version, thats like 4x cheaper than the commercial versions.

Anyways, my dad likes vista, but he does other things on his PC than me. I rather wait till 2012 or something when Microsoft stops making updates for XP and then I'll buy it. OR if Microsoft releases a new Windows that's better than XP and Vista.

Contributed by Centrixx, iVirtua Members
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Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:00 pm Reply and quote this post
If I HAD to chose, I'd pick Ultimate.  But since I do have a choice, I'm sticking with XP.
Contributed by schmidtbag, iVirtua Leading Contributor
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