12th Fleet Chatter Box

[Syvir Tau'ri]

How much is windows 7 anyway? I am really thinking about picking it up I hear it has some nice drivers and does less drain on RAM.

Depends? If you purchased a Vista computer after June 24th I believe? then you can get a free Windows 7 upgrade. If not, then it is $119.99 Home, $199.99 Professional, and $219.99 Ultimate

[Morgan794]

How much is windows 7 anyway? I am really thinking about picking it up I hear it has some nice drivers and does less drain on RAM.

How much? Let's just say you might as well buy a new PC, it'll come with Windows 7 - and you'll feel better about it. And by 'you'll feel better about it,' I mean it won't feel so much like you were just physically violated in a sexual manner.

[LordOfMadness]

How much is windows 7 anyway? I am really thinking about picking it up I hear it has some nice drivers and does less drain on RAM.

How much? Let's just say you might as well buy a new PC, it'll come with Windows 7 - and you'll feel better about it. And by 'you'll feel better about it,' I mean it won't feel so much like you were just physically violated in a sexual manner.

Hehe. Yeah I will just have to wait another year or so for an upgrade with those costs. Dang software costs are just crazy.

[Pathermars]

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[California]

Windows 7 is like $20 if you know anyone who goes to a university.

[LordOfMadness]

Windows 7 is like $20 if you know anyone who goes to a university.

I am still a graduate student....so how do I go about claiming this super cheap operating system thing?

[California]

Most universities (at least in California) have heavily discounted software available to students at the on campus store or library.

[Fitzgerald]

When I was in school I picked up a fully licensed copy of Windows XP Professional SP1 for a little over a hundred bucks. Full retail price at the time was 450! Try your school bookstore.

Note that it's an Academic License and it is in fact a full license owned by you: it's not OEM. Which means no hassles in terms of installing it on different or upgraded computers.

Speaking of XP, I kept using that OS and, like many skipped Vista entirely. But I heard such good things about Windows 7 from its Beta both word of mouth from friends and in the tech press that I was an early adopter.

An early adopter of a Microsoft OS.

Usually you'd question my sanity but Windows 7 is actually...win. Been using it since release and it's hummed along nicely. It actually is a new and improved Windows. I know, I know! It sounds crazy, but it's true: if you are still using XP, switch to Win 7 and you incidentally also triple or quadrupal your RAM. My 8 gigs stood me in good stead during the crazy EoB event I can tell you.