Re: [tlug] xen and windows: Vista Forbidden (Almost, Not quite)

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 08:36:30AM -0700, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> On 10/14/07, Darren Cook <darren@example.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > But it sounds like pre-installed windows is not going to be useful to me
> > anyway.
> 
> Except that current pricing means that you'll probably pay as much for a
> bare box as for one with Windows pre-installed.  If you get a box that
> provides Windows on a disk, you'll have the manufacturer's drivers and
> and disk.

Not necessarily--what is very popular these days is to have an install
partition, that will reproduce the original installation. Then, if you
want the disks, they charge more.  (I ~think~ Dell and Gateway are
exceptions, but wouldn't swear to that.)


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