vista pricing

[renegade600]

see this (http://news.com.com/Microsoft+Canada+leaks+Vista+pricing/2100-1016_3-6110267.html)

The posting indicates that the Home Basic edition of Windows Vista will be priced the same as Windows XP Home, at $233 ($259 Canadian). The Home Premium version (http://news.com.com/Microsoft+primes+PC+buyers+for+Premium+Vista/2100-1016_3-6076490.html?tag=nl), which includes support for Media Center and tablet PC abilities will sell for 13 percent higher rate, a price that translates to about $269 in American dollars.

Its going to get expensive, its not like when xp came out when most homes only had one pc - those that even had one. Now a good percentage has more than one. Me aint upgrading...

[Pi rules]

At least the upgrade price is a little more acceptable. I may just leave my current PC (although I built it with the intention of upgrading to Vista) with XP and since I'm going to buy a notebook before college I'll just have Vista on that. It's weird, but the notebook (I'll probably buy next summer) will probably be much better than my current PC. :(

MS will charge differently in the US, I doubt they'd seel an OS for $341. Home Premium will probably be $250 retail.

My house has a ton of PCs, but mine is the only one that would be able to run Vista (except maybe my brother's with a graphics upgrade, which is my old one). It would be way too expensive to buy that many Vista licenses anyway.

[dammit]

Won't bother thankyou. :curse:

[Roadrunner777]

It's a good possibility that the computer makers will start including an XP > Vista upgrade certificate with new systems pretty soon. If they follow what they did with XP, it will probably start in October, but certainly by the holidays, in my opinion.

[renegade600]

It's a good possibility that the computer makers will start including an XP > Vista upgrade certificate with new systems pretty soon. If they follow what they did with XP, it will probably start in October, but certainly by the holidays, in my opinion.

This has been in the tech news recently. I believe it will happened. Too bad I did not wait a few more months for my new computers.

[oracle128]

I may just leave my current PC (although I built it with the intention of upgrading to Vista) with XPI may just leave my current PC (although I built it with the intention of upgrading to Vista) with XPNow how'd you manage to get a DX10 GPU?

[Pi rules]

Look at my system specs in my profile, that GPU isn't exactly the greatest. It works well enough with Vista, though.

[uripyores]

Won't bother thankyou. :curse:Same here - at that price they can stick it. :disgust:

[oracle128]

Look at my system specs in my profile, that GPU isn't exactly the greatest. It works well enough with Vista, though.
It was a rhetoric question. DirectX 10 GPUs don't exist yet. There really is little point to building a DX9-based system if you're building it specifically for Vista... (especially so if it's a gaming PC, which I presume it is for your case)

[Pi rules]

I know they don't (or at least that they didn't when I built my PC, which I don't use for many games besides the occasional AA, NBA Live or Madden).

I just hope MS sees some of the reactions to the pricing and adjusts accordingly. I wanted to get Vista Premium, but I can't afford that, it's coming right before I go into college.