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Windows Vista Full Retail Versions (all prices USD)

Vista Ultimate: $399
Vista Business: $299
Vista Home Premium: $239
Vista Home Basic: $199
Windows XP Upgrades
Vista Ultimate: $259
Vista Business: $199
Vista Home Premium: $159
Vista Home Basic: $99 (Source: news.com)

Thus far, RC1 has met mixed reviews.
Full story available at:
http://www.infopackets.com/channels/en/windows/gazette/2006/20060908_vista_prices_and_release_candidate_1.htm

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Vista Home Premium: $239
Vista Home Basic: $199
Vista Home Premium: $159
Vista Home Basic: $99 (Source: news.com)
hey bob…you the two same items and two different prices…and what is the diff. between home and premium-do you know as of yet??? ::slight_smile:

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More bells and whistles in the form of media stuff I believe. A google search returns many hits
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=vista+"home+premium"+features
This one is from MS http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/feb06/02-26WinVistaProductsPR.mspx

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Mac OS X - $129
Mac OS X Server - $499

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Apple G5 = around 2000 dollars, and in the same time you can buy wonderful configuration with one of those AMD64 processors for less than 700 Canadian dollars and that includes 17" TFT flat screen plus HP printer (in any Best Buy store around GTA - Greater Toronto Area)

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Sasha Apple no longer has anything with a G5 in it

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Thanks Davidr…the links answered my question :wink:
Hi SZC and Mac ::slight_smile:

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10 essential tweaks for Windows Vista RC1

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Windows Vista Ultimate 1 leg 1 arm Windows Vista Business 1 leg 1 ear Windows Vista Home Premium 1 arm 3 toes Windows Vista Home Basic 1 eye 1 ear (you won’t be getting Aero anyway) Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade 1 arm 4 toes Windows Vista Business Upgrade 1 arm Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade 1 ear 3 toes 2 fingers Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade 1 eye All prices include your soul.

http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1448

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No comment ;D

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Made you laugh though, didn’t it.

Guess I’ll be able to afford one eye. Who needs two? :stuck_out_tongue:

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/bob3160/ShellFTP/Vista_vs_XP_Sound.png

View the alternative Soapbox Flash version if you are bandwidth Quicktime impaired.

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how ironic vista sounds in Apple QuickTime ;D

Seriously Now that vista has been released to Manufacturing does anyone know the memory footprint of vista or how it will run Vs XP on the same hardware

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Lots of hits here, http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=windows+vista+minimum+system+spec, this is just one, http://www.crysis-online.com/Information/System%20Requirements/ and another http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=31815 and one especially for you Kyle http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/18/vista/index.php ;D

I didn’t post any Microsoft links, they seem to be having a problem connection keeps timing out at the moment.

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David by memory foot print I mean once it is running how much RAM it uses. I Know OS X and XP use somewhere between 80-128MB

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I think the footprint would have been loosely connected the the minimum requirements. many would say that the minimum requirements are very optimistic for any of the Windows OS minimums, I mean they say you can run XP on 64MB of RAM. Yes you can but its like walking through treacle.

If you have the RAM footprint isn’t much of a problem, bearing in mind everything else that you run is going to add to that footprint and the overall minimum RAM requirements. It would be difficult to come up with a footprint just for vista alone when there will be so many different set-ups and different running programs (firewall, anti-virus, etc.), no one is just going to boot Vista and nothing else.

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Yes you can but its like walking through treacle.
Actually, it's like watching a streaming movie on dial-up. ;D ;D

(Sorry David, I couldn’t resist)

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and bob how long would it take to download and watch a movie on dial-up 8)
sorry davidr my friend-had to reply also in fun ;D

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Yes almost quicker to read the book.