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October 22nd, 2009, 10:41 PM
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| | SoMuchAnime-SoLittleTime
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Plymouth, WI
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<3 Technet subscription
Still have yet to upgrade some of the systems here from RC, 2/5 are still running RC. 
Did have to install XP on one of our older machines for my sister. It's so old that it can't run Win7 half decent (it's an old eMachines AMD 2800 with 1.5GB of ram IIRC, but my netbook with a 1.6Ghz Atom and 1GB of ram does perfectly fine). | 
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October 22nd, 2009, 11:06 PM
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| | PCLinuxOS 2009.1
Join Date: Feb 2001
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| Freebie for the wife, personally not interested...
Wifey got a Dell 1545 lappy about 7 weeks ago, it has a free upgrade to W7.
I'm just starting to investigate exactly how W7 is to become installed, I'm hoping I can get a M$ factory fresh version (unadulterated) and not have to get a version from Dell or Best Buy... the latter 2 will most likely either junk W7 up with so-called deals and limited time software or offers we CAN refuse (Dell) or it will be a garbage 'generic' version (Best Buy).
Me, I'm sticking with dual booting the desktop with XP64 Pro and PCLinuxOS 2009.1, the Eee 900A netbook will never run a Windows OS. | |
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October 22nd, 2009, 11:41 PM
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| | SoMuchAnime-SoLittleTime
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Plymouth, WI
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It's very easy to find an unmodified retail Win7 install disk online. | |
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October 23rd, 2009, 12:02 AM
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| | Senior Member
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LOL.... I love yer sig vass!
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October 23rd, 2009, 12:07 AM
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| | Instigator
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Healdsburg, CA
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I've been running it for a couple of weeks now. Nice operating system. Less filling, runs great. 
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October 23rd, 2009, 01:40 AM
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| | Super Duper Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Singapore
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Originally Posted by KarmaKiller  Yup, still on the RC here. I would like to upgrade, but haven't got there yet. | same here. Ive got a big exam in two weeks. After that Im gonna get me retail W7 64 and install it. Or maybe. Hmm. The RC is good til March. I enlist in the army on the 26th Apr 2010 and dont see my computer for 4 months. After that I see it in weekends for a year and a half. Maybe I should save my $$ and go back to XP?
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October 23rd, 2009, 05:15 AM
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| | A hero in training
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Im in the same boat pullmyfoot, I want to dualboot osx and win7 on my macbook pro but im leaving Feb 2010 and I don't really feel like dishing out the cash right now. My boss is gonna order a few licenses for us at work so ill try ill try it out there. | 
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October 23rd, 2009, 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by GroundZero3 Im in the same boat pullmyfoot, I want to dualboot osx and win7 on my macbook pro but im leaving Feb 2010 and I don't really feel like dishing out the cash right now. My boss is gonna order a few licenses for us at work so ill try ill try it out there. | for the army? | |
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October 23rd, 2009, 09:17 AM
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| | A hero in training
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Norfolk, VA
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Nope, im in the Air National Guard | |
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October 23rd, 2009, 09:32 AM
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| | Swine flu stopper
Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: BrisVegas, Australia
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Looks like I might be studying part time next year, and MS lets you buy a full copy of win7 Ultimate as a student at my uni for AUD$50, so I'll wait until then.
Running the RC on my old lappy with nary a problem, so am happy to wait (although the 'get genuine' nags will get old quick  ) for a while until I get a full copy.
Cheers
Mick
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