Update - the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor ran for hours before I canceled it - maybe I'll pass on Win-7 until I get a new system after all.
Note that this price is only good until 11 July, 2009.
Windows 7 Home Premium Pre-Order, $49.99 Upgrade, $199.99 Full | PCMech:
" . . . if you pre-order Windows 7 as an upgrade, the Home Premium Edition (which is what most people would go for) is just a tick under $50."
1 comment:
Elder Brother:
What's your take on the pro/con of this upgrade? (I would be looking at putting the Pro version on 3 computers ...) I'm skeptical, and still leaning to stay with XP, but the price is good.
Jul 3, 2009
Me:
Pro - Win XP is getting a bit out of date - soon we'll be seeing software that only works with Vista and up - there are already HP printers that require Vista.
Win-7 seems to be Vista with lots of the consumer complaints taken into account (cleaned up & debugged).
Win-7 is supposed to make home networking even easier (I currently have 2 XP systems that share a mouse & K/B on my network via Synergy, but can't share files over the same network).
Fewer Blue Screen of Death failures.
Con - paying for more Microsoft intrusions into my systems.
Bleeding edge - some hardware drivers probably not available, and it probably consumes more memory and disk space than XP (a neighbor has a new system that is completely overwhelmed by Vista - she needs a downgrade to XP, but hasn't the knowledge or $ to do it.).
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