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    Windows 7 Upgrade: Canada

    Discussion in 'HP' started by darrickmartin, Oct 22, 2009.

  1. darrickmartin

    darrickmartin Notebook Evangelist

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    For those of you in Canada and who've ordered the Windows Vista --> 7 Upgrade, does HP make you to pay for shipping? If so, how much?
     
    darrickmartin, Oct 22, 2009
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    I didn't have to pay a cent :)
     
    PlasmaShock, Oct 22, 2009
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    darrickmartin Notebook Evangelist

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    they still ask for a credit card number though, right?
     
    darrickmartin, Oct 23, 2009
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  4. Callamity

    Callamity Notebook Enthusiast

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    nop, no one asks you for credit card number when u sign up for upgrade.
     
    Callamity, Oct 23, 2009
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  5. darrickmartin

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    HP.com says its $12.99USD for the first one, and $3.50 for subsequent orders
     
    darrickmartin, Oct 30, 2009
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    hey. i just purchased an asus laptop and i was registering for the windows 7 upgrade. the last part of the registration was calculating shipping, which came to ZERO dollars, but they still asked for my credit card number? why do they need that information iftey're no charging me anything? anyone else come across this problem?
     
    robotco, Nov 25, 2009
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    I have registered two of my family's HP notebooks for the windows 7 upgrade, $0.00 for both and it never even asked for a credit card #.
     
    HEAVY42, Nov 26, 2009
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    Same here.
    I just put-in for the upgrade HP Canada thru (arvato North America).
    No credit card number, no shipping charges, nothing.
    I scanned my purchase receipt, uploaded it, it took me 2 minutes to go thru the whole process. Nice!

    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bits for me!!!

    How long is the waiting time to get this anyway? 2 months, like mail-in rebates, kinda deal?
     
    exercise, Nov 26, 2009
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  9. Callamity

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    Its around a month. Im receving mine on december 4th, granted i registered in July...

    Go figure, its hard to tell
     
    Callamity, Nov 26, 2009
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    To be honest, I dont like the HP's forums... My bullcrap detector goes off too much there... Realistically, speaking its about a month, now that the pressure is off for them, they'll probably get to it faster. You also have to take in consideration the fact that they had to wait ~ a month after they sold all vista laptops, so ppl cant return them, and still get a free upgrade. =)

    O i just noticed!, you have the EXACT SAME Laptop that i got!!! <3
     
    Callamity, Nov 26, 2009
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    Has anyone recieve windows 7 upgrade yet? Appearently they ship mine on Nov/12/09 but havent recieved anything yet... is it normal to take more than 2 weeks to get DHL letter from US to Canada?
     
    vtaka, Nov 27, 2009
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    Yeah, I wasn't too happy about the high temperature while playing games with it, but now I undervolt with K10STAT and I'll tell you...DO IT!!!
    It's all worth it, totally risk-free and mostly easy to do and quick.

    My settings (ZM-82 @ 2.2GHz):

    P0 (100% CPU @ 2.2GHz)=1.05V instead of 1.1V
    P1 ( 50% CPU @ 1.1GHz)=0.875V instead of 0.95V
    P2 (25% CPU) @ 550mhz)=0.762V instead of 0.85V

    all in all, it extends battery life, but drop your temps by around 10 degrees celsius, which is really worth it, expecially while gaming!
     
    exercise, Nov 27, 2009
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  14. Callamity

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    Yeah I had to do that as well... While playing Batman:Arkham Asylum, my cpu was getting temps around 85-90 degrees...

    i got mine to be:
    P0 = 1.025v @ 2.2Ghz (You can successfully ~90% stable, undervolt it to 1.0v, if you do not play games.)
    P1 = 0.835v @ 700 mhz (I played around with FID - multiplier values so it varies between 425-700 mhz per core.) Good enough for Web+Mediaplayer+Word.
    P2 = 0.750v @ 300 mhz (Again, played around with FID, drops the temperature to ~43 degrees, slight battery improvement. )Great for just Word+Media player. Adding anything else on top, makes it feel like a low-end netbook.

    What you can also do, is overclock your Videocard, to gain ~10-15ish FPS in games with maybe like 5 degrees increase in your VC temperature.
    Get GPUTool and set
    GPU Clock to 550 -> 700
    Memory Clock 667 -> 800.

    BTW, I already got Windows 7, and the PC is much more responsive with it. Now waiting for HP to send me the Official upgrade so i can install it properly with windows 7 dirvers...
     
    Callamity, Nov 27, 2009
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