Cheapest place for Windows 7? - Saxperience

Scott^p · 30th March 2010, 12:38

Anyone?

Do i bother with Ultimate over Home premium? I dont honestly feel like the features would benefit me much but i always like to have extras just incase

J222JRA · 30th March 2010, 13:10

Also very interested in this.......

Alex^p · 30th March 2010, 13:13

Not sure what the going rate is, http://www.ebuyer.com/search?page=1&...07&subcat=2937
Cheaper if you buy OEM.

Viper · 30th March 2010, 14:19

well, I got mine for about £30

Student deal

haz_pro · 30th March 2010, 15:00

i believe student basement doesnt check for proof of being a student. Im not sure if this would work but ill happily order a copy for you and send it to you otherwise. Although i might have to wait until october for my new student card!

baker556 · 30th March 2010, 15:36

Get mine for free

Penn · 30th March 2010, 19:24

Just make sure whichever version you buy comes with the latest media centre, it's fucking awesome.

I believe the 'N' versions are usually cheaper as they don't have media centre/media player.

kennysevenfold · 30th March 2010, 20:47

Home premium x64 is the norm tbh.

I can get you a copy, and serial for a small fee if your interested bud.

Scott^p · 30th March 2010, 21:07

Would need to be legit? Not sure i can be bothered with the looming threat of being locked out one day or not able to update properly etc...

Home premium looks like the answer so far?

peebee · 30th March 2010, 21:11

Im no computer boff, but my computer expert friend says you can only really fully utilise the full power of windows 7 when you are running it on a comp thats got 4 GB of RAM, anything else, keep with XP Pro, still shit hot!

Scott^p · 30th March 2010, 22:35

Hope he's recommending 64bit as well then

I want to replace fista and move up to 7. Could go back to xp but not wanting to

Chris_Mcfc · 31st March 2010, 15:16

What's that website that does the student discount?

puppet1984 · 31st March 2010, 21:23

http://www.software4students.co.uk/W...-software.aspx

don't have to be a student it just asks where you study i put manchester used my hotmail email. it's an upgrade version but you can do a clean install with it with various workarounds. i'll find the link then post it. also if you already have xp you can just upgrade.

Chris_Mcfc · 31st March 2010, 21:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by puppet1984

http://www.software4students.co.uk/W...-software.aspx

don't have to be a student it just asks where you study i put manchester used my hotmail email. it's an upgrade version but you can do a clean install with it with various workarounds. i'll find the link then post it. also if you already have xp you can just upgrade.

Thanks

Yeah that link would be great, i'm on Vista ultimate 64 at the minute. I'd only want to do a clean install really..

Scott^p · 1st April 2010, 12:24

anyone used the software4students above? Not bothered about putting my details in as it will be on my credit card so ill be covered.

I beleive the laptop is using vista home premium, im good to use the upgrade version?

puppet1984 · 1st April 2010, 15:34

i used them couldnt fault them disk came within 5 days.
i just installed win 7 on a new partition.
link about upgrade install

i had xp so had to upgrade outside of windows anyway.

Running Windows Vista?
If you have Windows Vista, you can purchase Windows 7 Upgrade versions. You can do a clean install (back up your files, clean install, and reinstall your applications) or an in-place upgrade (Windows 7 installs over Windows Vista).

If you have Windows XP, you can purchase Windows 7 Upgrade versions. But you must back up your files, clean install, and reinstall your applications.
If you’re running Windows 2000, you’ll need to purchase the full product and do a clean install.

it will check you have a version of windows (xp/vista) your entitled to upgrade from then you can clean install or inplace upgrade.

some people to get round the upgrade only if they don't have a previous version of windows install this then don't enter a license key then once windows is setup reinstall the same copy over the top. not sure if this works though haven't tried it.

puppet1984 · 1st April 2010, 15:35

link to work around

Viper · 1st April 2010, 19:58

Scott.

The version i got was an upgrade version. When I went to install it I was given the option to format my hard drive, therefore giving a clean install. no problems with it at all

Scott^p · 1st April 2010, 21:27

sweet will order on tuesday when everyones back to work

kennysevenfold · 4th April 2010, 23:17

Not legit, but i have been using it for 2 years now, get all updates etc, not a problem.
Could save you a fortune.

and w7 runs pretty dam awesome (better than xp) with at least 1gig of ram, and a dual core cpu.