$100 more expensive than XP version? Err, someone care to explain to me why the XP version of this model is almost a full $100 cheaper?
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My guess is Microsoft is subsidizing it. They don't want people leaving Windows for any reason. In the long run controlling the market is more important to them, so if they have to they will pay people to use Windows. This is a guess though. I'd be interested to hear from somebody at Amazon why the pricing is going this way.
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I chickened out and cancelled this order. I was jazzed but decided to wait awhile. The new tutorial books only have Vista, so it's chancy with older XP. How long before XP is landfill.
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I only have XP but as I interpret their specs, XP is mentioned only as a minimum requirement and to assure people with old systems like mine that it will still work. Surely it will work with the newer ones.
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Hello, I remember choosing between the two as well. What I found out is it was the same (tray load). Its lower price is due to the fact that it doesn't come with the Multimedia Suite, which I didn't want anyway.
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No the one that cost a hundred dollars more is, I wondered the same thing. This computer is very nice and well worth the money.
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I had this on XP and had problems. Now I have windows 7 and will be trying it on that soon. I hear windows 8 is a pain so I made sure to get 7 instead.
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This is the more universal version. It lets you upgrade from xp or higher. This is consumer version. At least what we are selling is , We do not know what other sellers have to offer. .
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Ask HP if they'd give you a Windows XP recovery CD. You know... you could probably find an XP torrent if you can't get the disk from HP. You're entitled I think, since you have a license for Vista already. Or... you can get a Mac which has an OS better than XP (and can install XP as well). Check it out. I think ChangeWave reported that 20% of people really liked Vista while 50% really liked XP. That's good reason to "downgrade" to XP, right? If you'd agree, realize that the same study showed that 80% of people really liked Mac OS X Leopard.
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It's Windows 8 compatible, which seems to be even more of a challenge, given my thus far horrendous experiences with Windows 8. I hate windows 8 I wish I had known better and gotten windows 7. Better yet, I wish they'd never done away with XP!
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Nope not mine came with xp office. I have had no problems with it, but I'm not a big game fan. The memory capacity is the thing.
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The 70 buck version is upgrade only. Course, down the road when your system crashes and you have to reinstall I wonder if they expect you to dig up the original version, install it, then install the upgrade over it? Strange, but yeah, the $70 dollar version is for if you already have some other version installed, I think as early as XP will work fine.
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If you mean the old model is more expensive, I believe 1.) it is harder to find for sale 2.) There are a lot of notes indicating the older model may have come from a time when the quality of the units were actually better. 3.) I am going to purchase an older model because I do not need high resolution, I want quality, and I am connecting to XP.
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it came w/ windows xp I'm not sure if they can still 'load' it or not. I've heard XP is going away
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Same program, but ultimate x7 bundles quite a bit of bonus software with it...well worth the extra few bucks. BUT!!!! I would download a demo version to see if it works on your computer. Apparently X7 isn't always compatible, no matter how strong your system is. ,,, Not working on mine, but I'm hoping they will repair the problem which they told me a month ago their engineers knew about and are working on. I've enjoyed their prior versions, so obviously I was looking forward to 64 bit... ...still waiting.....and starting to guess I should have just returned it. (now that I see they're selling it for less than a third of what I paid several weeks ago. /... dunno
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The unit advertised here has Windows XP. I would not purchase a PC with XP at any price. Can this XP machine be upgraded to Windows 7...I don't know. What I can do is give another review of my W7 machine. When I purchased this unit in 2010, it came with Windows 7 Starter. I did two upgrades...to Windows 7 Home Premium & increased RAM from 1Gb to 2Gb, the max the motherboard will allow. It has a 250Gb HD which at the time was larger than the combined HD capacity of my two very old Dell desktops on XP. I installed Office 2003 at the time & last year added Office 365 since I was permitted up to 5 installs. Now 4 years down the road I can say that this is a fine piece of equipment, very reliable. But it's beginning to show it's age...it's getting slow in the processing & boot-up seems to take forever. I will be replacing it with a Surface Pro 3 but due to finances, it'll have to wait til next year. When it is replaced, this unit will not go to waste, it will be given to a teenager in foster care and carry on.
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It's definitely overpriced. Buyers shouldn't reward sellers who gouge. As it were, Best Buy online currently has the 16gb model for sale at the MSRP of $399. Why anyone would may this kind of markup is beyond me. ASUS will be ramping up production soon enough to meet demand. A little patience will save a significant chunk of change.
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It works just fine with XP. The hardware is well-supported. It is the software you want to be concerned about.