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    Vista Upgrade Shipment

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by wfernley, Feb 20, 2007.

  1. wfernley

    wfernley Notebook Enthusiast

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    I haven't seen this topic discussed, forgive me if it has already been answered...

    Does anyone know when they will be shipping the Dell Vista Upgrade Disks? I'm located in Canada and my status is still set to Pending on the dellvistaupgrade.com website.

    Thanks!
     
    wfernley, Feb 20, 2007
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    First week of March I think
     
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  3. wfernley

    wfernley Notebook Enthusiast

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    That's good. I can't wait to get it.
     
    wfernley, Feb 20, 2007
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    Iceman0124 More news from nowhere

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    Actually if your installing it on a critical system, you really should wait a few months, possibly up to a year for the major kinks to be ironed out. For a general playtime machine do so at your own risk, video card drivers are still shoddy, but ATI is in better shape than NV at the moment, either way you will take a performance hit. I installed it on my desktop (my playtime machine) just to check it out and to be a guinea pig for my M1210. Its far from ready for a mission critical machine in my opinion, they fix one issue, and 3 more pop up. Bottom line, XP is a solid stable operating system, and will have full support for years to come. Vista is pretty and new, and very immature, just make sure you know what your getting into before taking the plunge.

    Whoa, How/when did I become a Mod?
     
    Iceman0124, Feb 20, 2007
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  5. wfernley

    wfernley Notebook Enthusiast

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    Nice post ;)

    Yeah I do use my laptop a lot which I will be installing it on. I will probably format and try it out to see how it works. If everything is buggy then I will revert back to XP.

    Do you know if there is anyway to dual-boot XP and Vista if I'm only getting an upgrade?
     
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    Iceman0124 More news from nowhere

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    I personally havent tried it, I've read that the upgrade invalidates your XP activation key, I havent confirmed this, but you might want to do some further investigation. You can try it out by not putting in a product key during installation, see how you like it, then reinstall with the key.

    This link shows how you can legally run an unactivated install of vista for up to 120 days.

    http://www.computerworld.com/action...eBasic&articleId=9011482&source=NLT_AM&nlid=1
     
    Iceman0124, Feb 20, 2007
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  7. andy_tok

    andy_tok Notebook Consultant

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    Yes, you can. Just 1)install Vista on another partition. or 2)clean install vista on the xp partition and then put xp on another partition. I'm not sure if 1) will work cuz I didn't get the express upgrade package yet but it should.
     
    andy_tok, Feb 20, 2007
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    Thanks for your posts. I don't think I would upgrade right away if it invalidates my copy of XP.
     
    wfernley, Feb 20, 2007
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