EBuyer Questions

MonkeyKong007

hi guys,

i want to buy windows xp...

please tell me what the difference is between these...

Microsoft XP Home With Service Pack 1A OEM

[url=http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=1159083437&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=26186
]Microsoft XP Home Edition [/url]

apart from the £60 price difference!

Monkey

Joe_Bloggs

You will get a book and technical support with the Non OEM version. With the OEM version you will just get a disk and you might have to buy a token bit of hardware eg. a cable or a fan.
I would buy a hard disk so I could try the operating system out on the new disk without trashing what I already had. ( Check the max size of disk your mother board can support if it is a few years old).  

The long awaited Service pack 2 for XP is out for some over the weekend. I predict slow downloads.
J_B.

seth

Home addition stops working after 3 years. You need to get a creidt card out to reactovate it after 3 years. Check with Mircosoft Customer support.

HairyHatMan

seth wrote:

Home addition stops working after 3 years. You need to get a creidt card out to reactovate it after 3 years. Check with Mircosoft Customer support.

What! I've never heard this before. Got any links to confirm?

talkshop

seth wrote:

Home addition stops working after 3 years. You need to get a creidt card out to reactovate it after 3 years. Check with Mircosoft Customer support.

Complete rubbish !!

Let alone all your spelling mistakes.

dave96

seth wrote:

Home addition stops working after 3 years. You need to get a creidt card out to reactovate it after 3 years. Check with Mircosoft Customer support.

LOL. Lets all set our clocks to 2009, then sue microsoft when we can't switch our PCs on again.
Strangely, I've never heard of this one before, I wonder where that started.

duncansby

Hi - I think the answer to the origianl question is that the cheaper version is an upgrade from Windows 98/ME, whereas the more expensive one is for those who do not have an earlier windows version on their PC.