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Vista on NewEgg

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ryan256

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Well.. I'm not sure who else might already be selling Vista. I checked Zipzoomfly, Office depot, Staples, and a few other places. So far only the Egg has it up for sale.

Anyone seen any other merchants shipping it yet?
 
Here's another question for you......who actually cares?


Search google news and you'll see the plethora of tech articles (not saying that these are the go to opinions for technology) that question why you should even upgrade to vista, as it'll cost you in both software and hardware. Add to that all the people who actually know a thing or two about IT and computers on these and other forums and they'll pretty much have the same opinion. Add to THAT the fact that Microsoft is already planning a service pack 1 for later this year (which is basically an indication that they haven't completely finished Vista), and you tell me whether it's worth it to actually spend any money on it.

I actually decided to spend my money elsewhere, figured if I have to buy new hardware anyway, I went out and bought my first Apple (note: NOT an apple fanboy, but I admire the OS and hardware now that I bought one), the Macbook Pro C2D 2.33GHz. I'm sure it'll run Vista too if I ever wanted to, but for now, XP in Parallels is all I need, if I even need that.

EDIT: btw, I think Microcenter has it, and for decent prices too if you really want it

Oh, and I notice a lot of apple haters (when researching to buy my macbook) don't like the fact that you can't easily configure the hardware on a Mac like you can on a PC. My question to them is this, with MS stuffing activation down people's throats more and more, isn't it getting to the point where if you actually change your hardware you have to go through the pain of reactivating it?
 
I will not be getting vista till I either have ALL new components, or till companies start making more drivers for vista. I've had absolute sh*t luck with many drivers, including my promise IDE expansion and turtle beach sound card drivers. Vista was a steaming pile of crap both times I installed it

For the record I installed it once while it was Beta, and once with the Final.
 
Yeah I gotta say I don't see a need to upgrade to Vista either. Maybe when Direct X 10 becomes standard for games. In the past the new Windows OS's were more stable than previous versions and for that reason alone I'd upgrade. However XP is stable as a rock and does everything I need. Tried the Vista RC2 beta and it didn't really impress me much. If anything it was a resource hog with a lot of eye candy. I don't need all that extra junk running in memory. I like my OS clean and streamlined.
Sorry to thread crap but I just wanted to express my agreement with the sentiments expressed earlier. It is interesting to know that it has been released. I wonder when we'll start seeing it pre-installed on new systems?
 
I ordered a copy of Vista Ultimate through work, it will give me something to mess with anyways. My main OS is Fedora Core 6, and will continue to be regardless of vista.
 
I'm worried about upgrading to Vista before all my games upgrade too, as well until I find out if the programs I will be using in engineering at Uni will be compatible or not.
 
Originally posted by: ryan256
Well.. I'm not sure who else might already be selling Vista. I checked Zipzoomfly, Office depot, Staples, and a few other places. So far only the Egg has it up for sale.

Anyone seen any other merchants shipping it yet?
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That's the 32bit version, where is the link to the 64bit version?
 
Originally posted by: Merlyn3D
Here's another question for you......who actually cares?
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Never said I was buying it. Was just pointing out the fact that one merchant is already shipping Vista. I agree with you. I'm not upgrading til forced to. I think Win XP is the very first OS where Microsoft actually did a pretty good job.
 
Vista Ultimate edition and my new Raptor 150gb come tomorrow. Time to replace those slow 2x Seagate 750gb drives 😛.
 
glad to see OEM prices for Home Premium and Business are only $10-15 more than XP MCE 2005 and XP Pro, respectively. That is a reasonable price increase IMO, unfortunately the retail box prices are way overpriced, just like XP.
 
Originally posted by: Googer
Originally posted by: ryan256
Well.. I'm not sure who else might already be selling Vista. I checked Zipzoomfly, Office depot, Staples, and a few other places. So far only the Egg has it up for sale.

Anyone seen any other merchants shipping it yet?
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That's the 32bit version, where is the link to the 64bit version?
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I doubt you want the 64bit. 32bit program compatibility is very low.

 
Whenever I get the money to upgrade my AMD64 2800+ machine to something more current I'll consider Vista Ultimate for the Media Center functionality.
 
Originally posted by: ShockwaveVT
glad to see OEM prices for Home Premium and Business are only $10-15 more than XP MCE 2005 and XP Pro, respectively. That is a reasonable price increase IMO, unfortunately the retail box prices are way overpriced, just like XP.
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In the UK, Home Premium is cheaper than MCE 🙂 (OEM vs OEM)
And Business is cheaper than XP Pro.
 
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
supply > demand.

I predict a price drop in the not too distant future.
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Umm...supply will always be greater than demand. They're pressing DVDs for crying out loud. They'd be able to supply a copy of Vista for every single man, woman, and child on this planet if they wanted to.
 
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