Originally Posted by nathris

The only difference between Ultimate and Home Premium is that in Ultimate you can set a video as your background and play Texas Hold'em.

I'm serious, that's it.
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Originally Posted by TehStone

$200!!! WHAT?! PLEASE don't recommend Win 7 to me I need this computer to work by the end of the week.

http://www.buy.com/prod/microsoft-wi...207383668.html

So I'm building my brother a pc and am shocked at OS prices - i've never had to purchase a retail version of Windows.

The plan was to use my OEM disks to install Vista, then use the product key from his fried laptop and I would end up with a legal and functioning copy of Vista on the new comp. Well apparently that's now how this works.

So I finally wade through the sea of Vista home premium "upgrade" packages and find a full version and is it really $200?? Vista for system builders is $100, is that my only other DX10 option?? I would really prefer using the full version.

Originally Posted by blupupher

Using the key from his laptop on another build is not the legal way.

And BTW, I have a new retail copy of Vista Home Premium for sale in my sig.



Umm, not quite. Ultimate has bitlocker, Remote Desktop, complete backup, hardware failure detection, fax and scan and a few other things.
Now there are freeware versions for most of this, but saying that the only difference is the Dreamscape and Texas Hold'em is pretty ignorant.