Vista - System requirements, Student Version, Upgrade Version

fleetingmind

Looking to upgrade my 2002 windows XP Home edition to get Windows Media Center and is only availble on Vista Premium and Ultimate.

While XP only needs about 1.5gig of spare hard drive the Microsoft website says Vista needs about 40gb for Ultimate. Does it slow the system up allot more than XP?

I see student/academic versions are cheaper than normal ones. What is the difference and can anyone just buy a student version?

It is cheaper for a upgrade version if I bought Vista Ultimate upgrade am i entitled to this as I have XP Home?

I have found a website that sells the above for £55. It is student website but it seems to allow students, teachers and even parents of students even Playschool kids. It is the normal version and not the student updrage version.

lesleyvhalifax

if you google aria you will find windows media centre from there but make sure it is the oem version as it it cheaper

Fonz_2

My Vista install uses about 14gb

Rich44_2

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142780 is the version you'll be looking at for Education use I believe.

The 40GB is not the amount the install uses, I currently have a triple boot system

Windows XP 20GB partition
Windows Vista x64 35GB partition
Windows 7 RC1 350GB partition

So it will install on less anyway

If you can hang on for awhile I would as Win7 is due out late summer and that will either supercede Vista or push prices down whilst outlets clear stock out so some potential bargains to be had