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    Vista Ultimate 32bit or Home Premium 32bit?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by valval, Aug 13, 2008.

  1. valval

    valval Notebook Guru

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    I wonder if it is worth buying the Ultimate 32 or the Home Premium? I've decided I'll stick with the 32bit OS for a couple of years till all my applications become compatible.

    I would have to pay 200 extra (in the end) to get the Ultimate (don't ask me how it happened, but it did).
     
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  2. Thund3rball

    Thund3rball I dont know, I'm guessing

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    If you are not doing any enterprise work or setting up domains, Vista home prem. is just fine.
     
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  3. valval

    valval Notebook Guru

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    What do you mean by setting up domains?
     
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    Thund3rball I dont know, I'm guessing

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    Will your machine need to join a domain? I mean a Windows Server 200x domain and not just a peer-to-peer network. If you need to join an Active Directory domain than Business or Ultimate would be the way to go. For simple home networks Premium will be fine.
     
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  5. logla

    logla Notebook Enthusiast

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    I concur - I have a copy of ultimate on my current laptop that I won in a competition last year. I also have home premium on my desktop machine that I purchased out right. As a normal day to day user I have no use for the extra features of ultimate. Dreamscene and the other Ultimate extras really aren't worth the extra amount of money they want off you.

    If you really want to spend the extra 200 then get yourself some nice accesories instead.
     
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    Shakey_Jake33 Notebook Consultant

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    If you have to ask the question, then you don't need Ultimate.

    btw there's not really anything that's incompatible with a 64-bit OS these days. Even XP64 is on par with XP32 these days.
     
    Shakey_Jake33, Aug 13, 2008
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  7. somekevinguy

    somekevinguy Notebook Evangelist

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    I bought Ultimate just for the faxing ability with my fax modem but I bought an OEM version so the difference in price between the two versions was only a little more than what I would have paid to buy a good aftermarket fax program. I eventually bought a stand alone fax so now I don't even use that and I have Vista Home Premium on another computer and there isn't anything that I miss on that version compared to Ultimate. The dream scenes are cool but there are ways to get them on Home Premium and I got sick of them after a while anyway and went back to a standard desktop.
     
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  8. paper_wastage

    paper_wastage Beat this 7x7x7 Cube

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    look at slickdeals, wait a while.. Vista Ultimate upgrade going for about $80...

    (or student deals with microsoft... about the same price)

    but i would say $80 = waste of money
     
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    I have two programs (gaming-related) that are not compatible on 64-bit. I will only be using wi-fi on the home network.
     
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