Windows 7 upgrade for £19.95

simon3030

Just bought an Acer Aspire One 531H net book from John Lewis in Milton Keynes - their product code is 230676457.
I'd been researching for a while, and have always liked JL for great service and a free two year warranty. This laptop is available elsewhere for the same sort of price, but the best deal is the availability of Windows 7 Home Premium, upgrade version for £19.99! Although the net book is not powerful enough for the upgrade, I’ve bought it to upgrade another XP PC we have at home. I already have Windows 7 home premium, and it’s a huge step up from XP. The assistants had to search as they weren’t sure this offer was available in store, but, bless them, they found the code, and hey presto, Windows 7 for less than £20 – that’s even cheaper than the MS student offer of £30 I was going to get my son at uni to organise.

totalsolutions

>Although the net book is not powerful enough for the upgrade

Should be fine...

Edit Found the code now.
Have you the Windows 7 upgrade offer code? , got me interested now..

simon3030

hi,
the netbook should run the upgrade, but I bought the W7 for another PC. You have to buy the netbook to qualify for the offer - sorry if I misled....it will upgrade an XP or Vista PC, or Windows 7 Starter (as is on the netbook). it only appears to be on this particular netbook too.

rsykes2000

Might be worthwhile editing the title to say it is ONLY when you buy a netbook....

JasX

depends if they send you a Win7 install CD or just an image file that can only be applied to the specific model of ACER netbook....

rsykes2000

JasX wrote: »

depends if they send you a Win7 install CD or just an image file that can only be applied to the specific model of ACER netbook....

Doesn't really depend, as you have to spend the money on the specific netbook then the 20 quid to get it.

vyle

if it's the "upgrade" disk, then it won't work with XP as you have to do a clean full install on xp machines.

MiserlyMartin

Thats right. It will be just an upgrade disk and not a proper full copy of Windows 7. £20 for one of those disks is an insult and total rip off for buyers of these laptops.

I bought a Hewlett Packard laptop in August, they want £20 for an upgrade disk too. It was sold with a 'free upgrade' option. £20 shipping and handling what a con, it should only cost a fiver max to make and ship the disk - for that money they might as well include it in the cost of the pc. Its only Windows 7 Home.

I decided to 'acquire' a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate off a mate at work instead. No wonder people don't buy software when its such a rip off.! Isn't it terrible when you buy a brand new laptop with a genuine operating system and then you have to stick a non genuine copy on it to upgrade to 7.

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MiserlyMartin wrote: »

Isn't it terrible when you buy a brand new laptop with a genuine operating system and then you have to stick a non genuine copy on it to upgrade to 7.

You don't have to do anything, you chose to.

I wouldn't consider it even worth my time to pirate something for the sake of £20, ridiculous.

busenbust

And W7 positively flies on netbooks too (unlike dreaded Vista).

MiserlyMartin

No I was forced to because the PC did not run properly on Vista. Windows 7 is based a lot around pc's with touchscreens, my pc is a touchscreen pc which came with the top version of vista, which 7 ultimate replaces. HP support said that any issues with the laptop would be fixed with the 7 upgrade, which was sold as a free upgrade with the pc.

The Windows 7 upgrade is only the home version. Home is a cut down copy of 7 ultimate and an upgrade disk is not even a proper piece of software. £200 to buy the upgrade so thats out, £20 for a useless disk which should have been free or nothing for the good copy software from a mate. What would you do - I had no option!