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captaincharisma   11-18-2008 at 11:36:08 PM

hey guys been researching all over the net for a friend of mine. he is going to get a dell laptop but it comes standard with windows vista basic( no XP option) but it offers an upgrade for Vista home premium.

so he is an average PC user that only does Internet and e-mail. nothing advanced and is also going to use it to play the occasional DVD movie. so for this type of user would the upgrade to home premium be worth it?

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4ryan6   11-18-2008 at 11:45:49 PM
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He could use a cell phone for that! LOL

 

Vista Basic will be fine for what he uses his computer for.


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notherdude   11-18-2008 at 11:56:58 PM
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He won't get Aero, the fancy vista interface features, that's the main thing for him probably. Otherwise basic is fine.

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captaincharisma   11-19-2008 at 07:12:30 PM
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yea thats what i thought. he doesn't really care about the eye candy anyway but hey just a small hack to the registry will get him Aero graphics anyway. thanks for the info guys

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notherdude   11-19-2008 at 08:45:24 PM
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captaincharisma wrote :

yea thats what i thought. he doesn't really care about the eye candy anyway but hey just a small hack to the registry will get him Aero graphics anyway. thanks for the info guys



Reg hack for that? Did not know that. Cool.

There's another hack to get 'dreamscene' on non-ultimate machines but it was a PITA to do.

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