I need advice on purchasing Win7 tomorrow.

Kimmy

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Hi guys,

I was wondering if someone here could advise me on this.

I’m about to purchase Win7 retail x64bit from OCUK. They have it on offer for just £162.99. My concern is; if I install it now on my current PC, what will happen in the New Year when I start upgrading my PC?

I’ll be replacing the mobo, CPU, graphics card and RAM. Will I have to purchase another copy of Win7?

As anyone come across this problem before?

Kim
 
If you buy a retail copy then you can install it as many times as you want on whatever hardware config you have as long as it is installed on 1 machine at a time!

Edit: Damn! - Beaten to it!
 
Thanks for the very very quick replies.

One last question; If I order it tomorrow, and it’s official release is the 22nd, when will I receive it?

I really do need to know the day. I only get one day off per week, so it has to be arranged in advance.

Could someone from OCUK advise me?

Many thanks to you all.

Kim
 
Kimmy said:
Hi guys,

I was wondering if someone here could advise me on this.

I’m about to purchase Win7 retail x64bit from OCUK. They have it on offer for just £162.99. My concern is; if I install it now on my current PC, what will happen in the New Year when I start upgrading my PC?

I’ll be replacing the mobo, CPU, graphics card and RAM. Will I have to purchase another copy of Win7?

As anyone come across this problem before?

Kim
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Why would you spend so much for Ultimate, what features in ultimate do you require that aren't in home premium?
 
I just thought it was better. Why?

Also, why is 'that other site' selling the same product for £149.99? Is the OCUK version just an upgarde?
 
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Its only better if you plan on doing serious networking and the like, realisticly for most home pre is fine, and at only £65 for the retail disk, its a steal, iv just ordered it myself.
 
edit your post Kimmy, you cant mention any competitors on here. Also its probably worth spending an hour or so reading up on the various Win 7 versions and only getting the one that suits you.
 
Seeing the word 'Ultimate' on the loading screen isn't worth £100. Buy the edition with the features you need, then put the money you saved towards something you'll actually get some benefit from, like the upgrades to your PC :)
 
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From what I understand, the Pro and Ultimate version of Win7 have better support for running older WinXP programs. There’s a list on another site that I’m not supposed to mention.

As all my programs are XP based, I thought Ultimate would be a better option. I could go for Win7 Pro, but there’s not much in the price between Pro and Ultimate.

I’m still listening…
 
There's about £90-100 in the price. Most of the apps/programs will work in Win 7. The Professional and Ultimate versions have "XP Mode" mainly for corporate useres that have bespoke systems based on XP.
 
Pro will just let u run more xp compatably programs at once, thats all, so say for example 5 for home, 10 for pro, 15 for ultimate. Don't take those as gospel im just making the figures up to help explain.

Dos'nt mean it won't run Xp compatability.

Personally for me Home Premium is excellent value at £65, compared to over £150 for the other 2.

As said before Ultimate adds more networking features, most home users will never use, Pro adds more Xp compatability programs to run at once, thats basicly it.
 
One last question – does the retail version of Win7 Home Premium (the one OCUK have for sale), have both 32 and 64 bit versions in the same box?
 
bifday2k said:
Pro will just let u run more xp compatably programs at once, thats all, so say for example 5 for home, 10 for pro, 15 for ultimate. Don't take those as gospel im just making the figures up to help explain.
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I think you're confused. Pro and Ultimate have XP mode which is a virtual machine running XP inside Windows 7. It has nothing to do with the amount of "xp compatibility programs" whatever that is..

Windows 7 will have no issues running your older software.
 
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