Sponge Posted July 5, 2008 Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 If I were to buy Vista , would this be a good price? Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate - Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 64-bit - English - Ebuyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nordberg Posted July 5, 2008 Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 Unless you have a specific need that Vista satisfies, I would stick with XP. Honestly, Vista is about 75% release code and the rest is beta. Adtmittedly, in a home environment it looks nice and has lots of bells and whistles; but in a working environment, you waste half your day shouting "come on!!" at your screen and rebooting after endless hanging processes. I can't personally think of any reason to upgrade to Vista in SP1 guise. Maybe SP2 will make it usable. If you do decide to buy it, then OEM is certainly the cheapest although I can't see how Ebuyer are actually going to sell you that package without a piece of qualifying hardware also. Oh yeh, without wishing to state the obvious, you need a 64 bit chip for the package you linked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullett Posted July 5, 2008 Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 I certainly wouldn't upgrade to Vista on an existing machine. My new build is Vista Home Premium and for a home machine you don't need any more than that. Also the only reason to go for Vista is for DX10 compatability for games (which is what my machine is mainly for). For anything else I'd not bother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted July 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 (edited) At the moment I'm running XP64 and it seems to me that support for Vista 64 is better. Just one example, iTunes. Oh, and as far as DX10, I'm not sure exactly what it all means, but: Before you but Vistago here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en This was taken from another forum (Mardy Mouse) Microsoft has released a updated DirectX package for all versions of Windows, This is a DX9/DX10 update that's not going to show up on the Windows Update website, but is an official release required by all games for functionality. The DirectX redist includes all the latest and previous released DirectX runtime. This includes the bi-monthly D3DX, XInput, and Managed DirectX components and provides the latest DirectX that developers include with newly released and all older Games. Latest Update: June 2008 I have downloaded and installed it It lets games on XP run in either my new game in steam asks me if i want to run it in dx9 or dx10 Nasty ms for not letting people know or release it as a update Edited July 5, 2008 by Sponge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gren Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 I've been running Vista Home Premium for over a year now on my laptop. Got it free as part of the Express Upgrade scheme. IMHO it's far better than XP both in functionality and stability. On a fresh install XP was crashing and hanging far more often! I had XP on the laptop for 3 months so it never got bogged down in installs etc. BUT I would not pay for the upgrade unless there was a specific need, it's nicer but doesn't do anything more in reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobK Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 If I were to buy Vista , would this be a good price?Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate - Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 64-bit - English - Ebuyer The price isn't bad but I wouldn't bother with the Ultimate version. I bought it and there is really nothing useful that isn't in the home premium version, which is half the price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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