Microsoft Vista from £64.61

sco0ter

biglugs wrote:

Don't forget to also account for the extra memory you'll need. Custom PC magazine has done some testing on Vista and reckon you will need 2GB of memory if you want to play any serious games on your PC.

Again this will depend on a lot of factors including the next gen of video cards that come with 1GB of memory and dedicated GPU's that will reduce the overall need for using the system memory/cpu. DX 10 also takes a lot of pressure from CPU and Memory.. Wait until Vista and Vista ready (DX10) video cards are avialable...

moyhim

Id watch it on the OEM versions as mentioned above they do have some daft rule where u can only install it so many times or on a certain amount of machines or something along those lines, but not only that, but the US version of vista i think is going to be half the price, so may be worth holding out

gromituk

h4x3r wrote:

you need the new tech

Why exactly?

psilocybe

sco0ter wrote:

Wait until Vista and Vista ready (DX10) video cards are avialable...

DX10 cards are already available

gromituk

C00kie wrote:

So, for a basic user.... is Vista an easy jump or another worthless costly update?

It's a worthless costly update. Try Linux - it is free, much less subject to attack, just as easy to use nowadays and you are not tied into a company's business model. I recommend you download or otherwise get hold of an Ubuntu CD. Just put it in your machine and boot. It will work without touching your Windows installation in any way. If you like it, you just select the install icon and you can make your machine dual-boot - allowing you to continue to use Windows if you want to. As updates come along, or you want software which isn't on the CD, you simply run the package manager and it is downloaded and installed. And it all costs absolutely nothing. I am using Ubuntu now.

vincefenlon

interesting what they are going to call a new system as processor/motherboard/ram/hard drive upgrade, how much can you upgrade without having to spend on another operating system cd

psilocybe

vincefenlon wrote:

interesting what they are going to call a new system as processor/motherboard/ram/hard drive upgrade, how much can you upgrade without having to spend on another operating system cd

I think its hard drive or motherboard but could be wrong.

BarGin

gromituk wrote:

It's a worthless costly update. Try Linux - it is free, much less subject to attack, just as easy to use nowadays and you are not tied into a company's business model. I recommend you download or otherwise get hold of an Ubuntu CD. Just put it in your machine and boot. It will work without touching your Windows installation in any way. If you like it, you just select the install icon and you can make your machine dual-boot - allowing you to continue to use Windows if you want to. As updates come along, or you want software which isn't on the CD, you simply run the package manager and it is downloaded and installed. And it all costs absolutely nothing. I am using Ubuntu now.

I recently downloaded the latest Ubuntu cd and tried booting my Acer laptop from it. It took about 10 mins to get to a desktop.

Of the things I tried, there was no sound, no wireless and my wide screen was only offered 4:3 resolutions. I don't know if it would have been any different if I had installed it but I was hardly tempted to.

The only thing that didn't work straight out of the box with my RC2 version of Vista was the multi card reader.

BarGin

timbellina

sco0ter wrote:

What about this

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/MCRPR/3-/3230248/Western_Digital_Mybook_Pro_1000Gb_1Tb_USB_External_Hard_Drive/Product.html

I'd hang about - according to:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128400-page,1/article.html

and many others, an internal 1Tb drive is going to hit the shelves with a UK price of around £225 in the next couple of months. That's going to drive down prices of the "fake" (i.e. cunningly disguised multiple disk sets) Tb drives a lot.

Tim

gjchester

h4x3r wrote:

i THINK u can re install it many times you want on the SAME machine

Depends, and until it's released no-one will really know..

Office OEMs have only been allowed to be installed once lately,after that the key won't work. OS OEM's have installed twice then it's a call to MS. The call is no problem, but it has to be made.