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What is the difference in these Windows 7 products?

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Steve Rimar

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Windows 7 Professional SP1 64bit (OEM) System Builder DVD 1 Pack (For Refurbished PC Installation) $89.97
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Windows 7 Professional SP1 64bit (OEM) System Builder DVD 1 Pack (New Packaging) $135.99

Refurbishing or New Packaging is all I can see. What am I missing?
 
The difference is that you technically aren't even supposed to be able to buy the refurbished copy. It's only for registered members of the MS refurbishing program. http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/en/licensing/sblicensing/Pages/refurbisher_programs.aspx

Longer answer: The refurb program is really for machines that were already licensed for that specific version of Windows but their recovery media is lost: http://oem.microsoft.com/public/worldwide/refurb/microsoft_refurbished_pc_licensing_guidelines.pdf

As the others note, just get Win8.1 OEM.
 
Is there that much difference in Windows 8.1 to the new Windows 10.xxx.

I don't know how much longer it will be until 10 is out and stable enough to use. Windows 10 is supposed to be a free upgrade from 7 or 8 from what I was told.
 
I had the same sort of dilemma when looking at copies of Windows 7. I only saw a few messages on the Internet from people saying they had problems with a branded (like HP, Dell etc.) copy of Windows. But, I decided at the last minute, instead of buying Windows half price, I bought the Windows 7 (64-bit) OEM Professional at newegg.ca (well, .ca because I'm in Canada).

I really like the Aero Glass desktop theme on Windows 7 and intend to keep this machine as a secondary machine when Windows 10 comes out.

Sort of off-topic but if you really want to know what I think of doing a build right now... When I tried Camtasia 7 for a 2 and a half hour recording, an old machine with an Intel E8500 took over 6 hours, my current Intel i5-4570 with 8GB of RAM took 2 hours 45 minutes. So, right before the 2016 Olympics, I might be looking at getting an Intel Skylake CPU, 4K (or actually UHD) monitor and 4K (UHD) Blu-ray drive. I'm hoping it will only take 1 hour and 30 minutes for a 2:30 recording. We'll see I guess. 🙂
 
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Steve Rimar said:
Is there that much difference in Windows 8.1 to the new Windows 10.xxx.
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It's still Windows, but there are some pretty significant differences. Especially on the subject of the start menu vs. Win8's start screen.
 
coolpurplefan said:
I had the same sort of dilemma when looking at copies of Windows 7. I only saw a few messages on the Internet from people saying they had problems with a branded (like HP, Dell etc.) copy of Windows. But, I decided at the last minute, instead of buying Windows half price, I bought the Windows 7 (64-bit) OEM Professional at newegg.ca (well, .ca because I'm in Canada).

I really like the Aero Glass desktop theme on Windows 7 and intend to keep this machine as a secondary machine when Windows 10 comes out.

Sort of off-topic but if you really want to know what I think of doing a build right now... When I tried Camtasia 7 for a 2 and a half hour recording, an old machine with an Intel E8500 took over 6 hours, my current Intel i5-4570 with 8GB of RAM took 2 hours 45 minutes. So, right before the 2016 Olympics, I might be looking at getting an Intel Skylake CPU, 4K (or actually UHD) monitor and 4K (UHD) Blu-ray drive. I'm hoping it will only take 1 hour and 30 minutes for a 2:30 recording. We'll see I guess. 🙂
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If you do frequently record you want a 5820K at least. You need the cores. You should get less than 90min right now. For 1080p transcoding/encoding though, not 4K.
 
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