Fingolfin269
Lifer
- Feb 28, 2003
- 17,948
- 31
- 91
Originally posted by: LeeYaeger
The Best Buy price likely ends April 29 - was in the weekly ad.
I don't, but a friend teaches at Baker college and I just had him buy it for me.Originally posted by: Slack3r78
Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
Originally posted by: Squisher
XP Pro Upgrade (not academic ver.) can be had for $50 from many campus bookstores, at least I know it can by the faculty.
The least i have seen it for is $89.99 on College Campuses ( I worked for two seperate IT departments in the past five years). Where do you go to school?
Actually, depending on your program and school, you can get it for free through the MS Academic Alliance a lot of times. I know this was the case for pretty much every MS product for CS students at my school, and a few other apps for kids in other programs.
Originally posted by: Parasitic
Does XP Home support dual core processors?
Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
Originally posted by: Squisher
XP Pro Upgrade (not academic ver.) can be had for $50 from many campus bookstores, at least I know it can by the faculty.
The least i have seen it for is $89.99 on College Campuses ( I worked for two seperate IT departments in the past five years). Where do you go to school?
Originally posted by: Delbert
Originally posted by: Parasitic
Does XP Home support dual core processors?
Good question. I know I had to get XP pro when it launched because I needed pro for dual processors. Seems like a dual core processor would have the same requirements.
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: Delbert
Originally posted by: Parasitic
Does XP Home support dual core processors?
Good question. I know I had to get XP pro when it launched because I needed pro for dual processors. Seems like a dual core processor would have the same requirements.
Been answered before - XP Home goes based on sockets, not cores. At least as far as dual cores go. No idea if iti'd support quad cores or anything like that. Course that probably won't be a concern anytime soon.
Save an old Win95 CD with it. Then you get a full install.Originally posted by: fire400
upgrades do no compare with the actual full retail product, I always push for the full OS version, and not an upgrade, in the situation where you need to do a fresh wipe, you only have the upgrade CD available?
Upgrade requires 98 or later, last time I checked.Originally posted by: Biggerhammer
Save an old Win95 CD with it. Then you get a full install.Originally posted by: fire400
upgrades do no compare with the actual full retail product, I always push for the full OS version, and not an upgrade, in the situation where you need to do a fresh wipe, you only have the upgrade CD available?
Originally posted by: Mephistokur
You do not need to have an installed OS to use an upgrade disk. You can do a fresh install. The only thing is that you must have an older version of Windows on CD handy. So, do your fresh wipe. After the graphical installation starts, you will be prompted for your old Windows CD. The installer checks to make sure it is valid, then proceeds with a CLEAN install of Windows XP.
This is an excellent deal - you get the full OS for 2/3rds the price of an OEM.
Originally posted by: biggiesmallz
$55.99 after pricematch at Circuit City
Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon
Originally posted by: biggiesmallz
$55.99 after pricematch at Circuit City
better op is pm at Staples w/ bb's sales flyer use the famous $10 off $40 coupon(search @ fw or other places) then do rering on 5-7 when there's supposed to be a $50 mir
coupon expires on 4-30 ..the xp home upgrade is $59.99 @ bestbuy til the end of 4-29Originally posted by: raulinigo
Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon
Originally posted by: biggiesmallz
$55.99 after pricematch at Circuit City
better op is pm at Staples w/ bb's sales flyer use the famous $10 off $40 coupon(search @ fw or other places) then do rering on 5-7 when there's supposed to be a $50 mir
Are you saying that Staples is going to have it for $89.99-$50 MIR on 5-7? Any clue if it will be a MS or Staples easy rebate?
I'm feeling a little dumb. What do you mean do a re-ring? Isn't that just returning and rebuying? Why not just buy it on 5-7? Does it have something to do with the coupon expiring on 4-30?
Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon
coupon expires on 4-30 ..the xp home upgrade is $59.99 @ bestbuy til the end of 4-29Originally posted by: raulinigo
Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon
Originally posted by: biggiesmallz
$55.99 after pricematch at Circuit City
better op is pm at Staples w/ bb's sales flyer use the famous $10 off $40 coupon(search @ fw or other places) then do rering on 5-7 when there's supposed to be a $50 mir
Are you saying that Staples is going to have it for $89.99-$50 MIR on 5-7? Any clue if it will be a MS or Staples easy rebate?
I'm feeling a little dumb. What do you mean do a re-ring? Isn't that just returning and rebuying? Why not just buy it on 5-7? Does it have something to do with the coupon expiring on 4-30?
and according to a post @ fw the xp home upgrade will be $99 less a $50 mir(not a ser but not known is whose the mir provider) so a buy now then return/re-ring on 5-7 for the mir....ymmv as always
Originally posted by: raulinigo
I have a question. My aunt paid some kid to fix her computer (which required a reformat/re-install). It appears said kid put XP corporate on it with a non-genuine key. Is it possible for her to get legit without reformating/re-installing again? I told her about the XP home upgrade at BB for $60 and she wants to do that if possible. But I heard that home/pro keys wont work on corporate editions. Is this true? Can she buy the xp home upgrade and use the key to make her pc okay again?
My guess is that she will have to re-install with the new home upgrade disk. Which means she will want me to do it for free.
Edit: I have been PM'ed... looks like I heard right.