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31 October 2001, 04:25 PM

Anil Ootam

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Want to save a few quid and get windows XP somewhere cheaper than £90. Can anyone recommend anywhere on the web?

I've found it for about £80 - anywhere cheaper?

Anil.

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31 October 2001, 04:28 PM

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I'm just waiting for a Select copy to turn up at work - hopefully it won't have all the copy crap on it.
Wait a minute that would be wrong - very wrong.........

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31 October 2001, 04:42 PM

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31 October 2001, 04:56 PM

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Father Jack, we got XP at work the other day. Evualation copy ya see. It doesn't have the product activation stuff but it has a serial key unique to our site.

Ho hum....

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31 October 2001, 05:16 PM

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That's ok then init - as long as your on an isolated network i.e. home, then the key will work fine, no ??

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31 October 2001, 05:57 PM

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That's my way of thinking...

But then there is the flip-side. I have to work from home mucho-loads!

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31 October 2001, 06:23 PM

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I wouldn't dream of doing it myself

BUT it can be downloaded from Gnutella and the likes...and there are cracks about already that get round the registration issue

Myself, I queued at PC World for mine and handed over my £90

Honest I did gov'

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31 October 2001, 09:01 PM

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me to !

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01 November 2001, 01:32 PM

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Microwarehouse are doing the upgrade for £68.08

Part number E356830

www.microwarehouse.co.uk

AllanB

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01 November 2001, 01:50 PM

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Why the hell would you want this crap anyway????

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01 November 2001, 01:51 PM

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Gotta admit it..Its seems damn quick

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01 November 2001, 05:40 PM

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Dunno about quick?
I installed it on a test machine at work (P3-500 with 128mb ram) and it was like running Windows 98 on a 486 (If anyone's tried that?)
Personally,I think to run XP you gotta have a good stack of memory and a nifty processor!

Cheers,

Nick..