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Old 08-27-07   #1 (permalink)
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Is there any real reason to purchase the Business or Ultimate versions of Vista over the Home Premium? I really don't want to spend the extra $..
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No, Home Premium is all you need. Trust me on this....i have all of them.
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I have Ultimate and Premium. There's no difference really. Go for Premium !
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none at all home premium does everything you need. the real question is 32 or 64 bit and my vote goes to 64 bit
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I have Ultimate and I would say go HP. Ultimate does not offer you much more at all. Only Dreamscene and perhaps the Extra ram support. However I doubt you will be using 128GB of ram.

I would say go Home premium
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Go with Business if you do not want Media Center and need to connect to a domain. Go Ultimate if you want Media Center and need to connect to a domain. For most users, Home Premium is all you need.
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64bit Home Premium FTW.

I have it on both of my systems and you don't need anything else. Really.

It becomes overkill, esp. for your wallet.

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I am buying Premium and thats all you need.
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I'm afraid if I go 64 bit I'm going to have software issues.
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I have Premium and have never regretted it.

What is the point in ultimate? Except for dreamscene which becomes boring after 5 minutes.

The extra features do not justify the price tag for your ordinary user.

Definitely get Premium over Business, Media Center is a really useful tool. I use it more than i thought i would.

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