All versions of Vista 50% off at closing compusa stores

[zephyrprime]

I was at compusa and saw that they had Vists for 40% off list price. They had a lot of copies while I was there. I'm not sure if this is national. I made my purchase at the bloomington MN compusa.

update: now at least 50% off.

 

[Skunkwourk]

confirmed for Compusa in Culver city CA.

 

[StormRider]

I was holding out for this at the Glen Burnie MD location but all the copies of Vistas disappeared weeks ago when the discount was only 10%.

 

[codeyf]

Confirmed at Totem Lake, WA store.

 

[chizow]

Oh wow nice....

May have to pick one up, although I'm not sure if my location has any. When I went in a few weeks after the closing announcement they pulled all the Vista copies along with any signs of XBox360 and PS3.

 

[jzodda]

ymmv on this one for sure. Vista has been gone at White Plains NY for weeks.

 

[isekii]

So how much is Vista Ultimate at CompUSA?

with the 40% off

 

[esquared]

Pleasanton, CA store only had the Vista Basic Upgrade for 59.99 and the Business uograde for 119.99. No Ultimates or Home Premiums.

 

[Gibson486]

they had them in the Framingham, ma store

 

[Pwntcomputer]

Don't forget to just get upgrade versions as they can be used as the FULL version.

Also, don't forget to get two copies of Home Office Premium with purchase of Ultimate.
$49.99/ea from Microsoft website.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: isekii
So how much is Vista Ultimate at CompUSA?

with the 40% off

They only have Vista Ultimate Upgrade and with 40% off it's $155 + tax. I posted about this a couple days ago in the official CompUSA closing thread. They even gave me a "signature" edition because they're supposed to clear them out first the guy told the other guy.

 

[Pwntcomputer]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: isekii
So how much is Vista Ultimate at CompUSA?

with the 40% off

They only have Vista Ultimate Upgrade and with 40% off it's $155 + tax. I posted about this a couple days ago in the official CompUSA closing thread. They even gave me a "signature" edition because they're supposed to clear them out first the guy told the other guy.

What does signature give you.....other than the signature?

 

[ntdz]

Originally posted by: Pwntcomputer

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: isekii
So how much is Vista Ultimate at CompUSA?

with the 40% off

They only have Vista Ultimate Upgrade and with 40% off it's $155 + tax. I posted about this a couple days ago in the official CompUSA closing thread. They even gave me a "signature" edition because they're supposed to clear them out first the guy told the other guy.

What does signature give you.....other than the signature?

Nothing.

 

[chinkgai]

lol

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: ntdz

Nothing.

Well, I figure maybe $5-10 more if you resell it. I just need it to be able to install Home Premium 64-bit for which I already have a key (but I also only have the 32 bit disk) and will be selling it after. If the "signature" covers my Ebay fees I'll be happy.

 

[Ackmed]

Hmm, nice.

 

[isekii]

can you upgrade to vista ultimate from win xp ?

also, do you get the 2 vista premium key for 50 bucks each ?

 

[zephyrprime]

Originally posted by: isekii
can you upgrade to vista ultimate from win xp ?

also, do you get the 2 vista premium key for 50 bucks each ?

Yes and yes but you have to buy the additional keys at the MS website.

 

[esquared]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime

Originally posted by: isekii
can you upgrade to vista ultimate from win xp ?
also, do you get the 2 vista premium key for 50 bucks each ?

Yes and yes but you have to buy the additional keys at the MS website.

Here's the link. Bring home more "WOW"

 

[isekii]

i'll check and see if there are any compussr closing near me.

 

[StinkyMojo]

Originally posted by: codeyf
Confirmed at Totem Lake, WA store.

did they have a lot?

 

[dp004i]

Braintree, MA compussr still has a lot left - both upgrade and full versions.

 

[chizow]

Just to clarify, the upgrade version is identical to the full retail provided you have a legit copy/key of WinXP ya? Only difference is the installer which will ask you for your XP key? I'd like to do clean installs but I don't want to install Vista over XP or have to install XP before Vista every time I do a clean Vista install. TIA, nice deal I'll probably snag the 2 extra keys and give them to the siblings as early X-mas gifts.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Another question - the Upgrade editions come only as 32 or 64bit while the full editions have both versions?

 

[chizow]

Once again thanks for bringing up this great deal. Picked up a copy of Vista Ultimate Upgrade for $155.99+tax and I'll be adding the 2 Home Premiums from the MS site.

They had a lot of other versions also: Upgrades for Home Basic, Premium, Office, and Ultimate. Full versions of Home Basic, Premium, and Office. The Upgrade prices for Home Basic and Premium were really compelling....$59.99+tax for Basic and $83.99+tax for Premium.

I only really need Home Premium but neither the Full or Upgrade versions they had include the 64-bit disc, so I didn't want to deal with getting that from MS (probably costs another $20) and I wanted to get the 2 extra keys anyways. I'm pretty sure you can get Home Premium versions with the 64-bit install disc, they just didn't have any.

They also had "Service Desk" versions which were the same as the Upgrade versions as far as I could tell, just with a smaller box. If your CompUSA only has these left I'd make sure they're the same as the retail and not the OEM. I think there's some difference in how many times you can re-ctivate the retail vs. OEM keys but I'm not 100% sure on that.