I was looking at Windows 7 and whats the diffrence between OEM and Retail?
Just the license. Buy whichever one is cheaper.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;18611802]Just the license. Buy whichever one is cheaper.[/QUOTE]
Professional or Ultimate?
Home Premium is a better deal if you're just doing gaming. Pro and ultimate just come with extra networking features. Really only useful on business computers.
Ultimate is kind of overkill if you just use your pc for gaming and web-surfing...
Pro it is?
Pro is good.
[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;18611984]Pro it is?[/QUOTE]
Get home premium
Odds are you wont use the extra features.
All pro gives you over home premium is more networking features. And all Ultimate gives you over that is some kind of compatibility with UNIX shit.
What about the XP mode
Pretty useless unless you need to keep compatibility with shit like AutoCAD 2000 or Office 95
Awww man I loved office 95
I think you get both 32 bit and 64 bit versions in the retail version, while you only get one of them in OEM.
[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;18612392]What about the XP mode[/QUOTE]
Doesn't work with games and is slow as fuck with normal applications.
Can't sell OEM after you've used it (I tried and eBay removed the listing and threatened to suspend my account).
[QUOTE=Jimmy422;18652769]Doesn't work with games and is slow as fuck with normal applications.[/QUOTE]
I'm planning on using it for Faceposer, seeing how it fails in Vista/7..
and it runs Monster Truck Madness 2 just fine :v:
[QUOTE=ferrus;18653210]Can't sell OEM after you've used it (I tried and eBay removed the listing and threatened to suspend my account).[/QUOTE]
It wouldn't even activate on their machine. Once it's installed and activated on the computer it's bound to it. Don't quote me on this, but I believe retail versions allow you to switch which computer you want to bind the product key to.
[QUOTE=pebkac;18648602]I think you get both 32 bit and 64 bit versions in the retail version, while you only get one of them in OEM.[/QUOTE]
Well people should know what they want when they buy it...... And for $50 to $100 less, why would you want to have the option for both...
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