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    Vista Premium on its way ...

    Just had e-mail confirmation from OcUK that they have dispatched my copies of Vista Home Premium OEM

    Wasn't expecting that quite so soon
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    awesomeness. Is it going to be wroth going straight to vista then? I mean apart from new layouts and stuff, performance wise is it worth doing with my rig?
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    Just checked my uni's software download centre today and I am now downloading a free copy of Windows Vista Business

    not as good as ultimate but atleast its business so I get remote desktop, can't believe home premium doesn't have it !!!

    couldn't live without it !!
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    I dual-booted Vista RC-1 for some time on a fairly similar rig to yours (except it had an X1800XT) and it was fine. I didn't bench it but it ran Far Cry, Doom 3 and Half Life 2 at 1650 x 1080 pretty well.

    It was also rock solid stable, even with the beta ATI drivers
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lexeus View Post
    Just checked my uni's software download centre today and I am now downloading a free copy of Windows Vista Business

    not as good as ultimate but atleast its business so I get remote desktop, can't believe home premium doesn't have it !!!

    couldn't live without it !!
    Wonder how long it will take for that to feature on P2P sites!!

    "Microsoft Products: These products can be downloaded, borrowed, installed by members of staff and research postgrads only for use on university owned system. A copy may be installed upon home machines to undertake University/non-commercial work."

    http://www.soton.ac.uk/iss/support/index.html

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    how much space would I need to partition off to dual boot it ?
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    Guys, not to be a stickler for the rules but this thread has nothing to do with a bargain does it? Post on the OS board instead if you want to discuss Vista.

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    My Home Premium Academic Upgrade is being shipped Monday or Tuesday

    Official release day is Sunday

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    So as a full time student u can get vista free? my uni doesnt have a downlaod site, (kingston) , Does it only apply to some unis?
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    It's not the whole uni, its onyl my department in southampton, Electronics and Computer Science, and I get a free copy of XP and Vista as an electronics student in the department.

    They are part of the Microsoft 'eacademy' which allows u download it free. I guess I am paying for it in my fees to some extent
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lexeus View Post
    It's not the whole uni, its onyl my department in southampton, Electronics and Computer Science, and I get a free copy of XP and Vista as an electronics student in the department.

    They are part of the Microsoft 'eacademy' which allows u download it free. I guess I am paying for it in my fees to some extent
    I also got vista business free from msdnaa i'm at Liverpool JMU.

    was released 2 weeks ago for us to download but we only got the serial keys this week.

    runs well on my pc faster than xp even (see my system)
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    Quote Originally Posted by fishboy25uk View Post
    Guys, not to be a stickler for the rules but this thread has nothing to do with a bargain does it? Post on the OS board instead if you want to discuss Vista.
    Sorry about that - realised I was probably on the wrong thread just after I posted, although in my defence I did buy Vista through one of the Vista OEM threads on the Bargains board
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lexeus View Post
    how much space would I need to partition off to dual boot it ?
    Can't remember exactly how large a partition I allocated, but I think it was about 40GB
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    Quote Originally Posted by phoenix198 View Post
    Just had e-mail confirmation from OcUK that they have dispatched my copies of Vista Home Premium OEM

    Wasn't expecting that quite so soon
    Can you tell us what the license says?
    Also what kind of hardware did you have to buy with it?

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    We just received are Vista Business DVD at work along with Office 2007 Enterprise.

    I will report back end of next week once i have rebuilt my laptop with both Xp and Vista.

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    Quote Originally Posted by madman045 View Post
    We just received are Vista Business DVD at work along with Office 2007 Enterprise.

    I will report back end of next week once i have rebuilt my laptop with both Xp and Vista.
    Office 2007 has been on trial for about 2 months now and expires in about April, it was so long ago I can't remember where I got the CD, but think it was from a magazine.

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