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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: Peacer on August 31, 2006, 09:33:01 am
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A random surfer found by coinsidence the prizes on the new windoez vista on the canadian microsofts hp
vista home = 275.777 usd
vista ultima = 448.227 usd
quite outrageous, imagine that a couple have to upgrade os, and only knows about windoez, maybe they only need 10% of what is on vista... that would mean they are paying for something they don't need, which would be a robbery.
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I was about to clap but it ended like X-/
That's alot'a dough:o
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Rip off. They advertise it like it's something that everyone -needs- as well.
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The complete list:
| Version | Complete | Upgrade |
| Vista Ultimate | 349 | 199 |
| Vista Business | 269 | 179 |
| Vista Home Premium | 239 | 139 |
| Vista Home Basic | 199 | 99 |
So for me an upgrade to Vista would be 99-139, the OEM versions will probably be cheaper though ;)
And yes, it's a rip off, 9/10 of Vista's functions were discontinued!
The only 2 remaining features are the new GUI (yay...) and the "improved" kernel...
If I would buy Vista, it's only going to be because of the DirectX 10 games, because MS is kindly making DX10 Vista only X-/
(where are you when we need you, Wine)
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why pay for something when you can get something for free thats 1000000000000000000000000 times better? GET LINUX! i swear to god, if i had the money, i would start making linux comercials.
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Rip off. They advertise it like it's something that everyone -needs- as well.
Well that is just the point, eventually everyone will. Key word: DirectX 10, which will not run on XP.
And yes, there's the linux people... it's just not an alternative to gamers. Most games on linux are crap, Cedega is always one step behind (although they really are doing a great job :) ), and that's just it...
No wonder Microsoft does everyhting to keep their monopoly in place, and the sources closed... ;)
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A random surfer found by coinsidence the prizes on the new windoez vista on the canadian microsofts hp
vista home = 275.777 usd
vista ultima = 448.227 usd
quite outrageous, imagine that a couple have to upgrade os, and only knows about windoez, maybe they only need 10% of what is on vista... that would mean they are paying for something they don't need, which would be a robbery.
This is not the entire cost, I'm afraid. All prices - regardless of version - also include exactly one soul.
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I guess that in a certain way that oultrageous price is a good thing. Maby they'll push morre people towards Linux because paying 400$ for blue screens is just silly :P
IMO if you aren't a gamer, you don't need windows. And if you are, well, XP will give you just the same blue screen satisfaction as Vista will.
PS: Just remember the most usefull command Microsoft has implemented in their OSs: format c:
Oh! And the most usefull key combination "Ctrl-Alt-Del"
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Rip off. They advertise it like it's something that everyone -needs- as well.
Well that is just the point, eventually everyone will. Key word: DirectX 10, which will not run on XP.
And yes, there's the linux people... it's just not an alternative to gamers. Most games on linux are crap, Cedega is always one step behind (although they really are doing a great job :) ), and that's just it...
No wonder Microsoft does everyhting to keep their monopoly in place, and the sources closed... ;)
Else there's always reactOS... a whole new operating system open source... and should be based on windoez... all made by reverse engineering
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ReactOS doesn't actually do anything at the moment.
The latest release only allows you to open up wordpad, or browse with firefox.
I think they're going to use Wine for the Direct3D stuff, but I'm not sure.
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ok, i'm a troller :
prices for any linux : 0 USD
prices for unix *BSD : 0 USD
i have just FREE softs at home, and i'm really happy.
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ReactOS and Wine work closely together to share code. Wines registry editor is directly from the reactos code, and reactos already uses wine for its 32 bit subsystem.
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What ever happend to "Lindows" ?
There was so much promise with this OS. I havent heard anything in years.
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It's called Linspire now, because of a lawsuit with MS.
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http://www.linspire.com/
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And has everyone forgotten Mac OS X? You get most of the *nix benefits PLUS a really neat OS. Now Mac OS X is not free, but it isn't $200 either... and you aren't getting the "watered down" version (Vista Home Basic) either. Plus, Wine-equivalents are already starting to be available for Mac OS X (I speak of Darwine, the free open source one, and the $60 CrossOvers Mac from Code Weavers). Plus, there're funny commercials (ok, so most of the commercials are dumb, but the OS... :) ).
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The Mac hardware is too expensive. I'd be happy to get one if I didn't have to pay £500 more for the same specs as a normal PC.
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What ever happend to "Lindows" ?
There was so much promise with this OS. I havent heard anything in years.
Linspire is probably the most unpopular linux distro in the linux community (well the geek side anyway(which is most of it))
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Xordan: the Mac Pro (the big badass one) beat Dell on price (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/23/AR2006082301226.html).
EDIT: link fixy
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What ever happend to "Lindows" ?
There was so much promise with this OS. I havent heard anything in years.
Linspire is probably the most unpopular linux distro in the linux community (well the geek side anyway(which is most of it))
I guess thats why i havent really tryed to tackle Linux. Unfortunatly, I have always been a point and click guy.
I have had 3 years of programming courses in college, with exeptional grades, but it was always forced. I have never found a comfort zone, it was always to much work for the little reward( IMHO )
Good for those of you that have the drive and feel for the programmers choice. With regret, I will unfortunatly be a windoze user until a better alternitive comes along :(
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Something a tad bit related: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-242569538632072049&q=genre%3Acomedy&hl=en
It's simple, it's stupid, but yet I can't stop laughing.
Wheeeeee!
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Xordan: the Mac Pro (the big badass one) beat Dell on price (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/23/AR2006082301226.html).
EDIT: link fixy
Dell are expensive too. :P
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http://www.linspire.com/
looks like its for 5 year orlds.
also, i dont see why people cry about the price of things.... if you want something pay for it... why shouldnt you?
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Dell are expensive too. :P
Hehe I was about to say... worst hardware + highest prices = Dell. ;)
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This sucks! A total rip off for a minor change.
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Yeah OS prices hurt.. but then again im one of those guy's who waits eagerly for new harware to drop just so i can buy previous versions at cut prices on ebuyer ;) oh or when i was younger safe my christmas money till january so i could buy twice as much in the sales :D lol borrowing my friends cd-rw to download a new distro :P oh man im so lame.. heh but lames cool right :thumbup:
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Yeah OS prices hurt.. but then again im one of those guy's who waits eagerly for new harware to drop just so i can buy previous versions at cut prices on ebuyer ;) oh or when i was younger safe my christmas money till january so i could buy twice as much in the sales :D lol borrowing my friends cd-rw to download a new distro :P oh man im so lame.. heh but lames cool right :thumbup:
Lame rocks :P 8)