My laptop has basic installed, can I purchase premium? What are the specs needed for it and how much will it cost?
2007-06-18 12:15:50 · 8 answers · asked by Jonathon 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
You can just upgrade, there's an option in the software itself. Not sure where mind as I unistalled Vista after I got sick of all the compatibility issues. You might want to take a deep breath before you see the charge to upgrade, the Vista Premium and Ultimate live and breath the 'premium' part of it when MS are delving into your wallet.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/default.mspx
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http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/details.aspx?view=info&itemid=3333198&WT.mc_id=0107_48&wt_svl=20111a&mg_id=20111b
$160 to go from Home to Home Premium. Like I said, extortionate!
Home to Ultimate is $260 for an upgrade. Shady b'ds
Even in one off, the full oem (for new computers) is under $240, with the cd, yet they want $260 for an upgrade?
You really don't want to know what (pittance) the likes of Dell pay for license, it would just depress you.
Not really knocking Vista, looks great, but really, it's the current Windows ME. I'll wait another two years and see if they learn from this with Windows Vienna in 2009.
2007-06-18 12:27:32 · answer #1 · answered by Malachim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe Vista has been designed to do this, you purchase a new key and it updates itself. Not absolutely sure.
I wouldn't have bought a notebook with Basic in the first place, Premium and above.
2007-06-18 19:19:34 · answer #2 · answered by The Mole 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on your laptop.. it might only be capable of running vista basic.. a lot of low end laptops are sold with it and ppl just see "vista" and assume its all the same..
i bought a 64bit pc , did upgrade offer they did. got 32 bit version of premium, pity they should gave me the option as i will have to pay to upgrade.. that does bite.
2007-06-18 19:35:14 · answer #3 · answered by junglejungle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it would not be any diffrent if u dont have a dedicated graphics card, cause without that none of the stuf in premium will work. also make sure ur comp has at least 1gb. of memory
2007-06-18 19:19:41 · answer #4 · answered by Jake 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can do that. You can purchase premium from the microsoft website. you need atleast 1gb ram etc.
2007-06-18 19:19:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you can upgrade, check out if your system can support a higher version, and the offers out
2007-06-18 21:06:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I should think so, isn't that the current con?
2007-06-18 19:26:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
why not £2.45
2007-06-18 19:19:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋