DSP or Retail of Home Premium?

yannis76

yannis76

yannis76

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I have been testing Vista for 15 days now and I have come to the conclusion that they are pretty stable. I have settled down to the Home Premium version but I cant decide whether I should get the DSP or the retail version. The price difference is considerably high in my country, but since I upgrade my PC every 1,5-2 years I think that the DSP version will not be for me in a while...Furthermore I have tested the 32bit version. Does the 64bit has the same stability and speed?
It has even crossed my mind to buy a new mobo (Asus and then the DSP version. Its cheaper than buying the retail version!!
What do you think guys?
 
I'm guessing when you say DSP you're referring to what we call OEM here? Have you considered a retail upgrade version? This would let you move it around as often as you liked.
 
If you upgrade a lot then retail may be for you, unless you can afford to shell out on a new OEM Version of Vista every time you change your motherboard.

64-Bit is different in terms of speed and stability, try it for 15 days and if it is compatible with your hardware then there is no reason not to get it, but if there are issues stick with 32-Bit for now if stability is important to you, and then keep trying 64-Bit in a VM or Dual Boot to test for stability and then upgrade the version if you change motherboard...

At the end of the day it is up to you....
 
Another question...right now I am testing a Home Premium 64bit version I downloaded. I still have 27days to activation. If I buy a DSP version and enter its key to my install, will this work or shall I have another install?
 
On the subject of the Vista upgrade edition, I've heard it is possible to do a clean install of this on a totally blank hard drive and when it asks for the license number you put it in and it doesn't invalidate your XP license so you can install XP on another machine ok, but as far as I know there is no way to install Vista on a pc with XP already on it and have it such that it does not invalidate the XP licence, to the extent that XP won't work on that PC AND won't be legal to install on another PC, or even put back on that PC on its own if you don't like Vista. Also it means there is no way to dual boot XP and Vista with the upgrade version for this reason. This is what I found out when I briefly dallied with the idea of going to Vista. Correct me if I'm wrong, with suitable link to bona fide source prefereably.
 
yannis76 said:
However there are people who say that doing a clean install of an Upgrade version might not be legal and might deny you some updates..
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How is it illegal if you own a qualifying previous version of Windows? I've always used the aforementioned method and have never been denied any updates.
 
Bubo said:
On the subject of the Vista upgrade edition, I've heard it is possible to do a clean install of this on a totally blank hard drive and when it asks for the license number you put it in and it doesn't invalidate your XP license so you can install XP on another machine ok, but as far as I know there is no way to install Vista on a pc with XP already on it and have it such that it does not invalidate the XP licence, to the extent that XP won't work on that PC AND won't be legal to install on another PC, or even put back on that PC on its own if you don't like Vista. Also it means there is no way to dual boot XP and Vista with the upgrade version for this reason. This is what I found out when I briefly dallied with the idea of going to Vista. Correct me if I'm wrong, with suitable link to bona fide source prefereably.
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Can't give you a link but I've installed Vista on a PC with XP and it's not invalidated my copy of XP for use on another computer. I simply booted from the Vista DVD and installed using the aforementioned method setting up a dual-boot in the process.
 
Kojak said:
Can't give you a link but I've installed Vista on a PC with XP and it's not invalidated my copy of XP for use on another computer. I simply booted from the Vista DVD and installed using the aforementioned method setting up a dual-boot in the process.
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Sorry if I seem thick but can you confirm you are talking about the upgrade edition of Vista here? I.e. you installed Vista upgrade edition on a PC with XP already on, and it let you configure a dual boot without invalidating your XP license, using the method in that link, which doesn't mention dual booting.
 
Bubo said:
Sorry if I seem thick but can you confirm you are talking about the upgrade edition of Vista here? I.e. you installed Vista upgrade edition on a PC with XP already on, and it let you configure a dual boot without invalidating your XP license, using the method in that link, which doesn't mention dual booting.
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Can I confirm it? Aside from giving you my word that it works, no, I can't confirm it. I simply boot with the Vista disk in the drive. On installation you don't insert your serial but you do select which version you have. I install Vista to a separate drive (or partition). Once installed I perform an upgrade from within Vista and I then insert my serial number. I also take care not to perform any updates between the two installations of Vista (out of sheer paranoia I suppose).
 
Kojak said:
Can't give you a link but I've installed Vista on a PC with XP and it's not invalidated my copy of XP for use on another computer.
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You are not licensed to run XP on another computer, by doing to you are breaking the terms of the upgrade EULA.

Burnsy
 
Kojak said:
How is it illegal if you own a qualifying previous version of Windows? I've always used the aforementioned method and have never been denied any updates.
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there's that and the fact that you can't actually do an in-place upgrade from certain versions of XP to certain versions of Vista. I think you have to do a clean install if you go from XP Pro to Vista HP - or at least HP 64.
 
Bubo said:
Sorry if I seem thick but can you confirm you are talking about the upgrade edition of Vista here? I.e. you installed Vista upgrade edition on a PC with XP already on, and it let you configure a dual boot without invalidating your XP license, using the method in that link, which doesn't mention dual booting.
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If you use XP as the eligible product to install a Vista upgrade, then you can't use that XP anyway, since in license terms that XP license + Vista upgrade are now a single Vista license (over simplified for this case).

It's like if I had Photoshop CS2 and bought the CS3 upgrade - I can't use both products. I can either use CS3 or choose to uninstall the upgrade and go back to CS2.

Likewise with your XP and Vista upgrade. If your PC came with XP OEM, you can install a Vista upgrade. You can then remove that upgrade if you want and put it on another machine that has an XP license, but you can't clean install, put the CD key in from the Vista OEM install on another PC, and use both at the same time.

In these examples "can't" means "can't if you want to stay licensed". If you aren't bothered about being licensed then why are you paying for the software in the first place?
 
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