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a_unique_person said:
That's because it's just Vista cleaned up.
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That may well be the case BUT it is significantly different enough that people like me (initially quite an enthusiast for Visa, ran a few of the betas etc. but never moved my main PC to Vista) to have decided to upgrade this time around.
 
lionking said:
For a normal household user, it the professional version worth the extra expense?
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You should also be mentioning the 'extra expense' for Australians is way out of proportion to what other countries will be paying. Also no 'family pack' option for us.

http://www.theage.com.au/technology...-for-windows-7-20091022-hb2g.html?autostart=1

Aussies pay top dollar for Windows 7

LOUISA HEARN

Microsoft use people power to launch Windows 7 and are certain that 'it works.'


Australian customers will have to stump up almost double the US price for some versions of Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system that arrived in Australian stores yesterday.

The company cited taxes, freight costs and currency fluctuations as key reasons that the retail price for full and upgrade versions of its software were substantially higher than in the US.
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The most basic version of the software will cost $199 to upgrade here compared with $US119 ($129) in the US, but, at the top end of the range, Australian customers must pay $429 to upgrade to the Ultimate version, almost double the $US219.99 ($238) price tag.
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If they are going to tell us lies, they should at least be plausible ones. They package it in Singapore for Australia. That's not far away. It's only lightweight boxes. The currency fluctuation should be dropping the prices, not increasing them. Taxes are only ten percent.

I guess the reason they can't come up with a plausible excuse is because there isn't any.


Once again, Australians get screwed with prices.
 
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a_unique_person said:
Once again, Australians get screwed with prices.
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It's possible to pay less than the prices they give for Australia in that article if you shop around. Still not as cheap as in the US, though.

I paid $171 (all prices are Australian) for a Home Premium upgrade-only (you have to have XP or Vista already) at my local JB Hi-Fi. The RRP, as mentioned in that article, is $199.

I think I saw the same type for $220 at Dick Smith Electronics. As an aside, for anyone that might not know, the Dick Smith that gave that company its name is a skeptic who has worked alongside Randi on some things like the Carlos hoax.
 
Darat said:
And you don't need it even for that - the same functionality is available in HP, it just doesn't come pre-configured.
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Yes, you can run a VM in HP. But, with Pro, you do not need an additional XP license to do so unlike any other way. Unless I am missing something.
 
dtugg said:
Yes, you can run a VM in HP. But, with Pro, you do not need an additional XP license to do so unlike any other way. Unless I am missing something.
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That is the difference - the Pro & Ultimate versions "give" you a licensed XP image, but if you have a version of XP hanging about then you can just use that.
 
Mac already has a tv ad attacking windows 7. They show those two Mac and PC guys and a girl standing between them with a box full of stuff in her arms. The implication is clear. It is that if you want to upgrade to windows 7, you will have to go through the bothe of moving your software and files. But it is misleading because I did not have to move anything.
 
Well Mr. Thompson, shall we get the show started then...follow me if you please,

My name is Josh, and I'm a PC.
 
Bill Thompson said:
Mac already has a tv ad attacking windows 7. They show those two Mac and PC guys and a girl standing between them with a box full of stuff in her arms. The implication is clear. It is that if you want to upgrade to windows 7, you will have to go through the bothe of moving your software and files. But it is misleading because I did not have to move anything.
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And if you were switching from a PC to a Mac, wouldn't you still have to move software (if it exists for the Mac) and files over?
 
Bill Thompson said:
Mac already has a tv ad attacking windows 7. They show those two Mac and PC guys and a girl standing between them with a box full of stuff in her arms. The implication is clear. It is that if you want to upgrade to windows 7, you will have to go through the bothe of moving your software and files. But it is misleading because I did not have to move anything.
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Well, it depends. If you are upgrading from XP will have move files and reinstall software. I upgrading from Vista (32 bit to 32 bit or 64 bit to 64 bit) you may not.

And of course, if you want to move to Mac you will have to move all your files, purchase and install software, and give Apple a bunch of money.
 
It blue screened three times in a row, each one within five minutes of the previous one. Let's see if it happens again. I clicked on the thing to check for a solution and nothing came up.

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 4e
BCP1: 00000007
BCP2: 000756C9
BCP3: 00000001
BCP4: 00000000
OS Version: 6_1_7600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 768_1

ETA: It's been going well for the past half hour...

ETA: Spoke too soon. The Windows 7 upgrade advisor thing I downloaded before upgrading said that my computer is compatible with Windows 7 and nothing has changed since it wasn't blue screening yesterday...
 
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Bill Thompson said:
Mac already has a tv ad attacking windows 7. They show those two Mac and PC guys and a girl standing between them with a box full of stuff in her arms. The implication is clear. It is that if you want to upgrade to windows 7, you will have to go through the bothe of moving your software and files. But it is misleading because I did not have to move anything.
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I didn't really reach the same conclusion about that. I just took it as a visual shorthand and didn't beyond that. You might be right, though. The actual complaint she voiced was that she was unhappy with her Windows experiences in the past so she doesn't want more of the same.

It won't embed for me... http://www.youtube.com/v/xg278VWJjr4
 
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I upgraded from WinXP Pro to a completely fresh installation of Win7 HP and I have been amazed at how well it went.


I ran the easy transfer utility on WinXP - it "transfered" something like 30 gigs (across the network so took about 3 or 4 hours - not too sure of the exact time as I just left it to get on with it), after the fresh install of Win7 I ran the transfer program on the Win7 PC and it took about 30 minutes to "transfer" everything to my new PC. What is amazing is that nearly all my registrations, passwords etc. were correctly carried over. For example I bought WinRAR about 5 years ago, no idea how it was registered, on Win7 I even installed a 64 bit version and the registration was in place and recognized.
 
I've backed things up and I'll clean install it. 7 or 8 blue screens in 2 hours.

I liked Vista and defended it from criticism a lot. My windows-based displeasure seems to have come a little later than most. :)
 
Alan, I think that your blue screens are due to a display driver conflict. I assume that you were just using whichever one Windows installed. What I would do is uninstall it, go to the chipset manufacturer, and get the latest version. Hope this helps.
 
Thanks. I tried that out and it hasn't shown me a pretty blue screen since. :)
 
So I got this new laptop after some kid broke my Inspiron that ran smooth for me for 5 years. Enter Vista. Not only is it a freeze-a-minute anger-izer, but the whole look and scheme of it (like how going Start...Program Files looks retarded) is massively frustrating even months into owning it.

So Windows 7 is NOT complete *******, yes? If so, I may OJ Simpson this piece of **** and start over fresh.
 
morgasm said:
So I got this new laptop after some kid broke my Inspiron that ran smooth for me for 5 years. Enter Vista. Not only is it a freeze-a-minute anger-izer, but the whole look and scheme of it (like how going Start...Program Files looks retarded) is massively frustrating even months into owning it.

So Windows 7 is NOT complete *******, yes? If so, I may OJ Simpson this piece of **** and start over fresh.
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Vista only froze often on my old 512MB RAM laptop (Home Basic is what came on it and it was the best laptop I could afford for uni at the time). I had no problems with Vista Home Premium on this 2GB RAM laptop. How much RAM do
you have?

Windows 7 has the same type of start menu as Vista. I like it, though.
 
GreNME said:
That doesn't sound right. I have yet to run into a Vista driver that Win 7 couldn't use. Was this an unsigned driver that was able to be shunted past the Vista roadblocks on unsigned drivers?

What I'm saying here is that a driver being written for Vista should by all rights work seamlessly with Win 7-- it was designed for that level of compatibility/transition between the two operating systems.
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I was confused about that myself. I called the tech support for the adapter's manufacturer and they told me that the Vista driver was not compatible for Win 7 and I had to wait until they released their next update on the release date.

Release day came, I went to their site, the new driver was there. I downloaded it, and it worked. Go figure.
 
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