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Zimmer wrote:

Vilham wrote:

TheEternalPessimist wrote:

I'd be getting Home Premium unless you need any of the extra bits Pro/Ultimate gives you.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind … ts/compare

I can't imagine you'd need Ultimate and Pro really only adds Domain network functionality from what I can see.

So are all versions locked to one motherboard and i remember XP had some "upgrade" version which required an old version of windows, which I don't have, I notice all these versions are labelled as upgrades so does the same apply here?

Just to make this clear. I have a brand new build with no OS. I need an OS and don't really want one that is locked to one motherboard.

OEM is bound to a motherboard, retail is not.

I got Pro, but I guess home premium does the trick as well. If you're a student Pro is the same price as HP.

So wait they have 9 versions of windows 7. Its like they are asking me not to buy it.

The only three versions relevant to the Western world are Home Premium, Pro and Ultimate. Get HP for most of your needs unless there's a feature of Pro that you actually need. I have Pro, but that's only because it's the only version my uni offers. If they'd had HP, I would be happy with it. I've yet to use any of the Pro features...

Vilham wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

OEM is bound to a motherboard, retail is not.

I got Pro, but I guess home premium does the trick as well. If you're a student Pro is the same price as HP.

So wait they have 9 versions of windows 7. Its like they are asking me not to buy it.

What?

No, there are 3 version you need to worry about, and that's that. You want motherboard bound you buy the cheap OEM disk from Overclockers, you want the full edition you buy the shebang either as a student for £40 or you pay out £125 for the retail edition of Home Premium.

It's not hard to understand the features that each come with/lack are incredibly clear. I honestly do not see what the fuss is about.

Nooooo!

Seagate bought Samsung HDD division.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/19/sams … 5-billion/

I can never trust their drives under Seagate management in future. Only WD left...

Last edited by GC_PaNzerFIN (2011-04-19 03:02:30)

max wrote:

Yay, maybe Samsung drives won't die all the time now

Really? I've got 7 Samsung drives (had some of them for ~3 years) and I've never had a single one fail...

Meh I've had good experiences with them so I'll probably keep buying them. In the past 3 years I have had 2 out of 3 WD drives fail but 0 out of 7 Samsung drives fail.

Ordered 2x2GB DDR2 667 for an oldish mobo that, as it turned out, is only able to read 2GB max. CBA to read the manual then, so I'm happy with a single DIMM over two 512MB DDR400's. Coulda saved 50% if I went with one, though.

(e: didn't "buy today")

justice wrote:

Tech guys help me :

Have an ipad, have 720p movies on the ipad, what's the best way to be able to display those on an hdtv, what do I need to buy?

http://myappworld.com/how-to-play-ipad- … -products/

First Google search :

After my girlfriend said that she would like to turn the closet into a walk in wardrobe, I was sitting reading Custom PC and showed her the logitech G27 and said I would love to get a car seat from a scrapyard and a few screens and have a shit hot racing set up, then joked about instead of her getting a walk in wardrobe we could put the set-up in the closet. She said that would be an awesome idea.

Camm wrote:

After my girlfriend said that she would like to turn the closet into a walk in wardrobe, I was sitting reading Custom PC and showed her the logitech G27 and said I would love to get a car seat from a scrapyard and a few screens and have a shit hot racing set up, then joked about instead of her getting a walk in wardrobe we could put the set-up in the closet. She said that would be an awesome idea.

marry her or I will

photoshop

Found this old thing i made like 3 years ago for you...

i got 100% on batman

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