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hi am thinking of buying a new laptop after christmas and have heard about the vista upgrade when you but a laptop in 2007?
is this ture?
am going to spend between £300-£400 on one and wondered if this would come with a free basic upgrade to vista when it comes out?
if not how much will the basic package of vista be?
also for good speeds on my laptop like surfing internet,msn and music at the same same what do i need?
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Posted: 2006-11-14 21:23:17
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Hi Jack,
Bought a laptop for £300 from PC World last weekend and their "free" upgrade to Vista kicked in at £400. You need to read the small print carefully. The good news is with Xmas coming up, and Vista about to come out, lots of firms will be offering the upgrade to get you to buy yheir machines.
There is a pricing plan out for the various versions of Vista. Look on MS site and in popular PC magazines.
Even £300 laptops give a reasonable spec for the price. Mine has a 60Gb hard drive, 512Mb RAM and is wireless enabled. The extra £100 will get a slightly bigger hard drive ie 80Gb and/or a slightly faster processor. Get a widescreen 15.4" Xbrite screen as well, they are good.
Someone else have thoughts? Give a good web search before you buy, stay away from eBay unless you know what you are doing, it's rife with rip off dodgy deals at the moment.
Doug
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Posted: 2006-11-14 21:33:00
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wow what laptop you get that sounds perfect lol and i think ill just have to buy vista seperate
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Posted: 2006-11-14 21:39:15
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It was one of their web specials but if you ordered it online, you could pick it up in store. They paid the VAT, supposedly, last weekend and because it was so popular, I ordered one for delivery as there were none in the shops. Just keep an eye out for the specials, at this time of year there should be a lot about.
Doug
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Posted: 2006-11-14 21:50:21
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kk well are laptops normally reduced in the sales?
does anyone know how much the basic vista apckage will be?
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Posted: 2006-11-14 21:54:36
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Normally about £70-80 if previous versions were priced the same.
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Posted: 2006-11-14 21:57:21
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ok thanks for the info doug
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Posted: 2006-11-14 21:59:12
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A pleasure. That price will be for an upgrade though. Full versions will be more, that's guaranteed.
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Posted: 2006-11-14 22:06:29
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yeh i know lol.oh well we'll just have to see after xmas lol
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Posted: 2006-11-14 22:11:42
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The retail versions of Vista will sell for roughly £80 to £360 depending on the version.
Don't forget though that the OEM versions are always MUCH cheaper
Make friends with somebody who has a trade account with a computer wholesalers, that's my advice
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Posted: 2006-11-14 23:48:00
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