Posted by londonlad123
Bought a HP recently and you get a FREE upgrade to Vista, but still have to pay £12.90 for delivery. Need to send a cheque to Holland because they didnt have an option to pay by Maestro and a copy of the receipt to somewhere else in Holland. Anyone know how much a fax to Holland would cost? Twats made it more difficult than it needed to be.
Is it f**king worth it?
Posted by parsnip
not at the moment, but maybe for later on it could be
Posted by Jim
A new OS for 12,90? Hell yes!!! Even if you don't use it you can sell it back or make someone happy.
Posted by Xugaa
Windows Vista Home Basic: $99.95 (upgrade), $199 (full version)
Windows Vista Home Premium: $159/$239
Windows Vista Business: $199/$299
Windows Vista Ultimate: $259/$399
Erm... yes!
Posted by whizkidd
I'd take it if I were you...
Posted by leeboy13
if you dont want it i'll have it
but serious its only £12.90 mate, never know when you may need it
Posted by Coxy
If you dont want it sell it! Depending on which one you get they go for around and upwards of £100 on eBay. Seems worth it to me.
Posted by arien617
Order it!!! £12.90 is nothing. Don't install it immediately though because Vista has too many "teething problems". Wait for software updates to sort out the problems. I've had to do system restore twice over the past 3 weeks.
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Posted by dougproctor
And !I've had it for three weeks and never restored once! Get it, it's worth it
Posted by londonlad123
I guess its best to order it, but I don't understand why they couldn't just put a voucher in the box.
I've been told its possible to add more RAM to the computer by adding a usb key, is that true or is there something more to it?
Posted by A L 3 X
how do you find out if you get a free upgrade because i just bought a compaq laptop which is owned by HP on 23rd Nov 2006
Posted by dougproctor
Londonlad - the RAM thing is called speedboost, I think. You put a USB pen drive in a socket or a memory card and as long as its fast enough, it will use it as additional memory. It is clever enough to work out whether it is fast enough because if it isn't, you don't get the option to use it. They reckon you should put in a USB drive that is the same Mb size as your physical or real memory.
Posted by londonlad123
@dougproctor
I was finding it hard to believe that billy would add a feature that. Imagine adding 4 gigs of ram!
Posted by Xugaa
I've got loads of pc gaming friends that use 4GB of RAM in their computers, can't Vista handle 8GB of RAM...?
Posted by londonlad123
but this is using a usb key not making you spend more money buying expensive ram and installing it. Thats why I was surprised.
Posted by shaliron
On 2007-03-05 19:53:56, londonlad123 wrote:
but this is using a usb key not making you spend more money buying expensive ram and installing it. Thats why I was surprised.
Well it isn't RAM exactly, and it's not as efficient as RAM. From things that I've read, it doesn't really improve performance by a lot, so a RAM upgrade is obviously more efficient.