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or $62 + tax from your local university.

Or Free via dreamspark.com if you're a student.

#2---Are you sure Windows 7 is available?

Does the Windows 7 Ultimate edition actually have something extra that makes it worth anything? Vista Ultimate was a bit of a let down.

no, he is not sure and he does not know.

www.win741.com Home Premium or Pro 32/64 bit for $30 with a .edu email address.

From what I understand, Win 7 Ultimate offers hardware encrytion (if supported by your MB), and your choice of 35 foreign languages. Costs a bit more than Win 7 Pro (unless, of course, you purchased Pro upgrade edition during their $99 pre-order promo).

What's great about the upgrade editions is that you can, with a tweak or two, install the OS as if you had a full installation edition, saving you $$$.

Does window 7 slow computer down like vista?

I wish I have a student account.

Win 7 is slower than XP. However, if you're getting a 64bit platform then may as well go with the latest 64bit OS. I'm sticking with XP for the forseeable future.

Not a deal - Fry's ad from last Friday (7-day ad) had the OEM Ultimate version for $159. I suspect there will be other deals closer to BF.

Definitely waiting awhile, without being a student or tech I doubt I'll be shelling $$$ out for a copy. Running Ubuntu now.

I could save you all a bunch of money and even headaches.. Try Ubuntu or Fedora.

I preordered Win7 Pro upgrade from Amazon at the $99 price - received it on the release date. The upgrade version came with both a 32 bit and 64 bit installation DVD - I did a complete fresh reinstall using the 64 bit DVD - no 'tweaks' required.

Already saw somebody on Philly Craigslist selling their 32 bit installation DVD - I can't imagine that the activation key would work since he had already installed the 64 bit version and was selling his 'extra'.

If you are running Vista, consider Win7. It's much faster. BUT, make sure all of your peripherals and software are supported - . your wireless NIC. Even more of an issue with 64 bit. That said, 7 is much faster than Vista. And with 64 bit, you can run more than 4 GB RAM. Again, you need to make sure all of your apps and hardware are 64 bit compatible.

I've been running it under my MSDN license for 2 months - solid, happy, no issues. 64 bit, 8 gig ram.

I'm posting to say the sky has not fallen - it works well.

Win 7 works well. Fast 25 minute install on a modern machine vs. XP or Vista that take at least 2x as long. It's snappy and responsive and feels as quick as XP.

Win7 is way faster than Vista. In some cases it's faster than XP. All in all I feel W7 & XP are comparable in efficiency.

If you have to stick with W7 32-bit and have 4GB or more, there's a tweak to open up 64GB support under 32-bit. Intel & AMD CPUs have supported PAE for a long time, allowing for more than 4GB addressing in a 32-bit OS. Google "ReadyFor4GB" or read
http://jasonkneen.bacon.com/2009/10/how-to-enable-4gb-of-memory-on-32bit.html

Been running bootleg versions on 3 of my machines for over 2 months.... screw Microsoft, these work well and much better then Vista was. And the price is RIGHT!!!

#19 - I'm afraid you're the one that's about to be screwed by Microsoft and the State Pen, not to mention your State-assigned bunkmate.