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I'm looking for a deal on Windows Vista (Home Premium) or Windows XP Pro. I am not looking for the 'upgrade' versions but OEMs are fine.

The best i've seen for Vista Home Premium is about $107 at Newegg. I haven't seen anything good for XP Pro.

Also, I'm not a student/teacher. Thanks!
 
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[quote name='wildnuts02']I'm looking for a deal on Windows Vista (Home Premium) or Windows XP Pro. I am not looking for the 'upgrade' versions but OEMs are fine.

The best i've seen for Vista Home Premium is about $107 at Newegg. I haven't seen anything good for XP Pro.

Also, I'm not a student/teacher. Thanks![/quote]

for $139.99 you can get the oem pro xp from newegg.com
 
If you get vista oem get the 64 edition m$ makes it a pain in the ass to change between 32 and 64 oem versions unlike the retail box.
 
Vista is only good in my perspective if you want Direct X10 otherwise, I stick with XP Pro SP2 for everything else. They claim Vista is a user friendly interface, but the system resources that they use make it so, take up that convience and replace it with one that has not been implemented to the public. It's sort of a side effect of releasing OS in long time intervals.
Basically MS saw a potiencial threat in marketing, with people of lack in intellegence. *cough*mac*cough* users*cough*. I don't know how well DX 10 works in Vista for PC gamers, but that's all I can see benefit to doing so. Also media center, automatically comes with it, some use it some don't.
Yet I wanted it at one time to use for my 360, but found better solutions. The OEM for Media Center is like $120. A piece of advice buy OEM, it's a hell of alot cheaper than going to your local bestbuy or what have you and paying one sh*t load of money for it. I went to the 2007 Vista, Office, and SQL Server launch and got Office 2007 for free, and it sells for $200 or so.
Buying OS is a tough job, they are very expensive, and you have to know what you're are looking for now and what you'll use in the future, because you don't want to go down the road of either 1)building an entire new system(takes time) 2)buying an entire new system (simple, but not as cheap) and 3) rebuiling your former system status from scatch. Which I can tell you is not fun, I've had to do it twice, once for viruses a while back(gorram stupidity) and the other was for the hard drive that had failed on me. Some places you can try are www.tigerdirect.com, www.newegg.com , www.clubit.com , www.microcenter.com, www.xPCgear.com, www.neoseeker.com, and http://www.pcclub.com/main.cfm.
Although if you don't want to deal with this, buy a pre-loaded machine. Most XP units have been wiped out and replaced with widows vista, but as Danomano89 said, there is popularity to go against store trend. So if you're looking for an XP system(which I reccomend you do) you probaly won't find it in stores.

Although, you can find the original disks for cheap at stores that sell a wide variety of windows software, where they are lined up in comparison with all of the new Vista and office software. I've seen it at my local AAFEEs(aka BX or PX), they keep alot of old stuff there, and if you go ymmv with them, you can get deals on software, electronics, and other such non-sale and over-stocked merchandise.(% off)
For the most freedom go build a machine with XP on it, buy or pirate, your choice. Whether you're a theif or whatnot, there's all sorts of options, but I'd stongly reccomend doing things with a cheap copy of XP. IT's functional and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, if you use the service packs that is.
You said you were not a student, but if you find an Microsoft IT academy, there is a offchance that you get free stuff like OS, and discounts. I'm a member right now, and it's being checked into for the possibility. It's ymmv, but if you're a high school/college student you can easily get in for free(depends on the area), I had to pay a $15 fee, but that's basically for the class and not the discount. It is better than doing such MS IT academys' that are for the middle age worker w/out experience.
A side benefit to windows vista is, IPTV(Internet Protocol Television) it was in a thread here, I cannot remember who posted it so I don't know the link or whom to give credit to. For Vista ultimate and preminum(it's not called that, but it's a step down from ultimate and I cannot remember the title) you can get IPTV, and from what I hear it's like cable(w/channel amount) and it's HDTV.

Hope that helped some, I just had a little rant. PM me if you have any questions.
 
i bought my laptop with vista ultimate
tried soo hard to like it, but it honestly is a piece of crap that stops working for no reason

i downgraded to xp pro and have never looked back
i still have the vista ultimate license should i decide to switch back when they work out all the kinks in vista
 
My girlfriend has a copy of XP Pro and Vista Ultimate (I think...) that she'll sell you.
They're both from her university so they say Do Not Sell or something, but oh well.
PM me if you want the details. She has no idea what they're worth, so she'll sell them cheap I imagine.
 
[quote name='iowaholdem']My girlfriend has a copy of XP Pro and Vista Ultimate (I think...) that she'll sell you.
They're both from her university so they say Do Not Sell or something, but oh well.
PM me if you want the details. She has no idea what they're worth, so she'll sell them cheap I imagine.[/quote]

oh cool i'm interested but as far as i know there aren't any real academic discounts - i looked at store of the univ. i used to go to and the prices were basically the same as retail..
 
I don't like Vista just, because it recently came out and there always going to be bug when it does out.
So i'm just stickin with XP until Vista is completely figured out and everything runs well, and likes its supposed.
 
I have an unused, full version of XP Pro, OEM, sitting here looking me in the face.

I have used it once...for a few months, till I got the now outdated XP 64bit PRO, which I still use.

Pretty holographic disc. send me a message if you're interested.
 
Why not linux?
If you're weird like that.
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[quote name='jedi0077']Mac OS X 10.5 Best OS ever.[/quote]

i'm running 10.5.1 now on an Intel Macbook Pro. I'm looking to add a Vista/XP partition using Bootcamp.
 
[quote name='wildnuts02']i'm running 10.5.1 now on an Intel Macbook Pro. I'm looking to add a Vista/XP partition using Bootcamp.[/quote]I went talking to my girlfriend about selling you any of her Vista or XP cds, but she's wary about the EULA and FBI haha.

Well, if you're interested still, I have a copy of Vista Business (which was a digital download, eiher 64 or 32 bit) and/or XP Pro (also a digital download, 32 bit) that I could sell you that I got from the engineering department at my university. Send me a PM if you're interested and we can work something out.
 
I love my Vista Ultimate. Of course, I used vLite and ripped a bunch of shit out of it, but it's snappy and I feel it's secure and works really well for me. I wouldn't go back to XP myself.
 
[quote name='Doomed']Why not linux?
If you're weird like that.
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That's pretty funny. Innaccurate, but funny
 
I just got vista, had XP Pro... So far i like vista more. It's quicker than XP was, and i havn't had any nasty bugs. Except for when it first installed it wouldn't recognize my monitor, but other than that... Once you get it all worked out i think it runs fine.

But then again i've only had it for 2 weeks.
 
I've been using Vista for about a week and absolutely love it. I really don't understand why people prefer XP, other than that they are used to it. Vista can do anything XP can do, XP can do some things Vista can do.

Aside from the fact that "it just works", which is an enormous fact, there are some great changes in accessibility. My personal favorite is the start menu. I never even use the menu, actually -- I just use the search. It's awesome to be able to hit the orb, type in the name of whatever I want and just launch it. No more digging through a start menu of 200+ programs.

Accessibility is improved in every conceivable way. The calendar, the start menu, explorer file viewing, gadgets, etc.

Have any of you tech savvy folks who hates Vista checked out the Resource Monitor? Task Manager > Performance > Resource Monitor. It's amazing.

Back to "it just works", as that's probably the biggest improvement... I first built this computer, plugged everything in (printer, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, etc) and the Welcome Center pops up and tells me I need to install updates. I thought it was Windows Updates, but no, it knew everything I had plugged in and it had automatically found the drivers for them. My motherboard, videocard, sound drivers, printer drivers, drivers for my monitor... everything. It knew what model everything was -- even the printer, despite all the Vista/Printer trouble I've heard about, it knew the exact model of my printer before I did anything and it gave me the driver I needed. I check the box next to each one, click install and it installs all of my drivers all at once. When an updated driver is released, the Welcome Center lets me know.



This is an unnecessarily long post, but I consider it my love letter to Vista. If you don't want change, stick with XP, but Vista certainly isn't bad.
 
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