Posted 07/03/2009 at 09:45:56pm

 cliche addendum.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/storysupplement/beer/2008/?section=money_news_funny
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1569k_scrubs-99-red-balloons_creation
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Posted 07/03/2009 at 04:32:03pm

 and your question didn't investigate doing a reinstall on a laptop after/if the recovery partition is wiped-out by the Win7 upgrade/install.  With no hardcopy of the old OS left are laptops a one way upgrade??
hummm... lot's of chatter, not many answers.  
MaxPC  you gonna pick-up the ball??  Helping hand to your readers, so we don't need to rely on here-say?
 
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Posted 07/03/2009 at 04:15:05pm

Laptops of all denominations Have Not come with pure OS CDs for years and many more years.  

MaximumPC has lamented this for quite some time - a) someone here does not actually subscribe/read the magazine, b) someone here shops in some pretty 'fishy' places to be getting OS cd's with thier laptops. (watchout if you get federally audited)

However, Thank you, to all three replies, for reminding me that there is the key on the bottom of the machine, and maybe that may work. But probably not.  A key alone won't convince the upgrade CD.

Additionally I found some links on the listed retailers' sites that imply the upgrade path is not smooth - I will send a copy to MaxPC and see who's hoodwinking who.

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Posted 06/27/2009 at 01:46:40pm

What about laptops that don't come with os discs?

I followed the link to the MS FAQ for limited pricing but that didn't explain how laptop upgrades will be handled.

There's no os disc to put in for a Win7 install to detect.

Worse still, in most cases now install data is on that 'spare' partition - setup by your laptop maker - Installing Windows 7 may (or may not) do away with that partition.  How is a future reinstall handled?

 How is laptop upgrading handled?

Also, if your purchase path is always laptops - why upgrade or buy Win7?  The next machine one is to buy would already have either of these Win versions installed by default, the fee will be bundled in the price, and the hardware's price will have fallen.  Can we conclude that if you're only buying laptops this upgrade offer loses its 'appeal'?

Posted 06/27/2009 at 01:49:24am

 The posters under this article must be on weekend leave from a long-term care facility.  
Windows Vista is not at all good, it is not functional as many loony-bin replies claim.  
Vista is a junk product. The claims I see here in the comments are delusions and/or lies.
We have Vista Home premium and Business versions on 3 laptops - 2 HP Pavilion and 1 Dell XPS.  
My cousin and a roommate have Vista home p and ultimate on a Dell and Asus.
All Intel core2 duo laptops, 2 or 4 gig ram laptops.
In all five of these cases we hate our Vista experience.  I've downgraded to XP pro and the others all live in envy when they see me zipping along on my laptop.
The others are still using Vista and we see the craptacity this software is daily - 
- it can't  do USB transfers. (taking 7 times longer than the same transfer through WinXP)
- its slower to startup and shutdown than the XP machine.
- not a single program we had been using worked on the Vista laptops unless it was patched: Vista had zero ability to run any application we had used on Windows XP. (no compatibility mode)
- wireless networking was harder to maintain, not easier.  Vista Standby and Hibernate scrambled wifi connections, the XP machine starts right up and transparently logs back into wifi networks.
- as another poster commented the UI has the ease of use of vomit.  I don't doubt that everyone praising Vista does so after being on the sauce.
Its days are over and its time on the market lasted too long.
It never worked, people claiming otherwise are liars.  MaximumPC magazine kept using WindowsXP as a benchmark the last 4 years - 'nuff said.
 Next year people will use Windows XP or Windows7 and MaximumPC will mock those who used and hang on to Vista.
 
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