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frugal Microsoft Vista option -- Home Basic edition

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JL

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Nov 29, 2007, 7:20:56 PM11/29/07
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I just bought Vista Home Basic Upgrade Edition off ebay for $35 (costs
$99 in stores). It was technically used (but was taken off the previous
owner's PC), but I had no issues installing it. I did have to call the
800 #, however, to prove I had a legit copy of it in my hands. That
only took 5 minutes.

It installed quickly, only taking maybe 1.5 hours including the time to
fetch and install updates from the MS website. Lot less time and pain
to install Vista than to install XP. It recognized all of my hardware
(4 year old Compaq Evo 2.4 gig P4 with 768mb RAM, onboard
video/sound/USB 2.0 card, etc.).

It looks nicer than XP. The icons, menus, and the rest of the UI is
great. It seems to run just as fast as XP. And all my fave software
works on Vista -- iTunes, Open Office, Mozilla Thunderbird/Firefox, etc..

Basic does lack some of the features that the pricier versions of Vista
contain, but I don't really need any of those features like the
automated backup. I simply keep all my docs, pictures, and other data
in a single file, and then save that to a DVD disc periodically. Also,
the Aero interface (wich isn't included in Basic) is really just eye
candy. Plus my older hardware won't even run the Aero interface anyway,
so Basic not having Aero is no big deal. I'll probably buy a new PC in
a year, so I can then get a better version of Vista bundled with it.

Just A User

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Nov 29, 2007, 5:12:10 PM11/29/07
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Welcome to the Vista fan club. While my move to Vista was not as frugal
I believe it was worth it to upgrade to a new pc anyway, the last one
was over 6 years old so things were likely to start giving out soon. I
find Vista (Home Premium) to be a far better os than XP.

Binyamin Dissen

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Dec 2, 2007, 4:05:27 AM12/2/07
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:20:56 -0800 JL <no...@nowheresville.biz> wrote:

:> It recognized all of my hardware

:>(4 year old Compaq Evo 2.4 gig P4 with 768mb RAM, onboard
:>video/sound/USB 2.0 card, etc.).

Vista with only 768M? And it runs OK?

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