For anyone who missed the pre-launch £49.99 deal that was available for a short time and in limited numbers, you might want to visit Tesco-Direct who have a cracking deal of £49.97 with free delivery :-
When you go through the online checkout you will get the opportunity to enter a voucher code. Use code TDX-SFFT to get an extra £5 off bringing the total down to £44.97 delivered. I've just ordered mine
Truely a bargain at that price, but I am really happy with XP and will resist the offer as if it aint broke..dont fix it.. but at least when I do have to shift over I can body swerve round that shyte Vista
AMD Phenom II X4 BE 965 @ 3.80GHz
nVidia GTX 560 TI 448 Cores
Tempted but Ill wait and see if it's worth upgrading from Vista. As far as I can see it is Vista but with some tweaks and has been optimised for touch screens.
Error 482: Somebody shot the server with a 12 gauge.
Guys take note on what upgrade paths you can and cant take for win 7!
Upgrades to Windows 7 from the following operating systems are not supported:
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows XP, Windows Vista® RTM, Windows Vista Starter, Windows 7 M3, Windows 7 Beta, Windows 7 RC, or Windows 7 IDS
Windows NT® Server 4.0, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server® 2003, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2008 R2
Anyways ive got my free copy on disk, and ive got my free boxed version coming after the 22nd! The joys of being a techy!
jonesey2k wrote:Tempted but Ill wait and see if it's worth upgrading from Vista. As far as I can see it is Vista but with some tweaks and has been optimised for touch screens.
From someone who is really happy with Vista, I will be moving to 7 as soon as possible. It is far superior in pretty much every respect. Also... the inplace upgrade is NOT recommend. Anyone moving to 7 should use a clean install... the difference is very significant.
Well.. the upgrade paths not supported list above would seem to indicate that you can only upgrade from Vista (full retail) anyway mate which will automatically mean that for many of us.. the upgrade path doesn't exist
From what I've gleaned M$ have been 'forced' to make Windows 7 a full product rather than an upgrade product for Europe. Reason being that it doesn't have an inbuilt browser and I think M$ were worried of the implications of upgrading a product already embedded with a browser by a product without a browser. Users need to do a clean instal having previously downloaded and saved a copy of their browser of choice on removeable media. I've got Vista on my laptop and as I only use it for browsing am happy with it. XP on my desktop will be replaced by W7.
Ref installing W7 is it best to instal 32 bit or 64 bit as I believe W7 includes both versions?
