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when windows vista goes retail

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sonoma1993

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When windows vista goes retail sometime next year. How long will it take places like dell, best buy, circut city, and etc to start offering pc with vista preloaded on the computers?
 
id think the day windows vista hit the shelf, most likey that same day, alot of those companies will have windows vista computers up and running and ready to sell, if not maybe after 2-3 days.
 
I remeber when windows Xp-64 wasn't selling at all , HP was selling Intel Itanium 2 systems preloaded with Win-xp 64 pro. so maybe that example will answer your question,
most of microsofts money comes from OEM s do you think they would dumb enough to piss there OEM s and release it before anyone of it's cutomers IBM , HP-Compaq , Dell are ready that's absurd.
 
OEM installs are usually available before retail copies.

Computers with Windows XP pre-loaded were available a few weeks before the 10/25 retail release date.

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Originally posted by: The Linuxator
I remeber when windows Xp-64 wasn't selling at all , HP was selling Intel Itanium 2 systems preloaded with Win-xp 64 pro. so maybe that example will answer your question,
most of microsofts money comes from OEM s do you think they would dumb enough to piss there OEM s and release it before anyone of it's cutomers IBM , HP-Compaq , Dell are ready that's absurd.
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The xp-64 that was recently released is not the same as the version that runs on IA64.
 
Why do we need to go far, winxp-64 isn't avilable for retail sale it's only avilable for OEM's and yes if you tell me you saw a retail computer store owner selling Winxp-64 it's because he is considered a registered OEM so he gets it and bundles it with system builds he has in his store.
 
They will have PC's the day it comes out. Maybe even before. OEM's get new windows a month or two in advance. How do you think Windows XP Corp. was leaked out two weeks before XP Pro even went live?
 
1. The RTM version of Windows XP was released in August and the retailed boxed version came out in October. Vista will be the same. It takes time to make all those boxed version, the OEM only needs a single master CD to install Vista on 10,000's of machines.

2. Windows Vista will come in many flavors and it doesn't need to have an advanced video card to actually work. The beta 1 works just fine on 64 meg cards except you don't get the some of the cooler effects. You do still get the features that Vista has to offer like the virtual folders.
 
Originally posted by: The Linuxator
more or less the same 😉
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How do you figure? One's just a 64 bit extension, the other's a completely different architecture. If it was "more or less the same" it wouldn't have taken so long to get the x86-64 version out.
 
Originally posted by: doc2345
Originally posted by: MBrown
^a long time i would say becuase you can no longer have onboard graphics cards and stuff.
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Gotta wonder were this kinda bs comes from.......
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It is true in a way.........you won't be able to run vista in all its glory until there are some big improvements in onboard graphics technology/power....

It is false in the way that vista will still run fine!!
 
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