ATTN: Difference between Vista OEM and Retail License*. A lot of people here ask how OEM is different from Retail so here it goes: Short guide but covers main differences between the two license types OEM Vista is tied...

is the difference? Which products are OK to get in OEM?. When I shop for hardware and software, I see different prices for products with notations of OEM and Retail. What is the difference? Which products are OK to get in OEM? OEM = No retail box, no manuals,...

launch they were not labeled differently than retail and there was no warning they would come lower, also the naming conventions are flawwed in that while an 8500 retail is always 275/275 an oem can be any of 4 different speeds with little way to tell. I...

Retail vs OEM. I have read that some people say that retail processors are better than OEMs. Is the only difference that the retail comes with factory heatsink or am I missing something. I wouldn't think that the retail processors would be any better. Are they...

so I can move on. "Do I pay retail? What difference would it make?" It would make a huge difference. Retailers who assemble systems for you rarely have decent prices. They mark up all components by percentages. This skews the price difference between...

exactly the same from state to state and some states have none at all. It can even have different rates in different cities. It is fundamentally different in that it is a (retail) sales tax so it attaches at the time of the sale and is based on...

Dell Studio XPS 435T has the best performance! UPDATE 11/28/2009. Hi everyone! I'm new to this forum and like it very much! I purchased a new Dell computer a few months ago, its my 2nd Dell computer. I read a lot of complaints about Dell on this forum. I'm...

release) CD at order time. The difference between an MS retail release CD and an OEM OS release CD is not important regarding the purposes I describe. The OEM CD may only be able to install on the supplying mfg's hardware is the primary difference. Archived...

OEM versus UPGRADE. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () Hi All If i go to say, walmart, and buy a CD with win XP, what is the difference between an OEM copy and an Upgrade copy,other then not getting any support from microsoft?...