Dragonos said:
^there ya go. windows 7 (home edition) for 30 bucks if you have a valid college email adress. I would've updated already if it wasnt for the fact that this laptopns' screen died (using an external monitor) and i'm sending this thing in for repairs this weekend. And all this "windows 7 is truly awesome" makes me a very unhappy boy..meh.
As for mac prices - from what i understand the only time when they are comparible is within the first 2-months ish from a new model launch. they never drop their prices but bring out revised hardware every year, so that means theres a good 80% of the year when mac prices are disgusting - and as a college student i despise how new model launches seem to be late in the year (read: after college students already bought their crap, meaning most mac buyers got price raped unless there was a good bonus deal - ala the free ipod touch last year or 2 years ago). bah... |
The download of the student deal is weird. Rather than an ISO (like it was with the RC download), you have to run their software to unpack the data, but it seems to always error when it's nearly done (the one I see is something about read only files).
There is a work around that I found and I was able to create an ISO from it, but I wont be able to install it till I get everything backed up and partitioned.
Also, you can make that Windows 7 Professional instead of Home through that deal. When you register your college e-mail and you click on the link they send you, there'll be some text hightlight yellow about if you need some kind of network feature for your university and when you click it, you'll be offered Windows 7 Professional for the same price. However, you can only get 32-bit or 64-bit so I had to just stuck with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. I'm sure I'll make more use of the potential once I can do some of the upgrades I want. Even a small step up to a more powerful dual core CPU and 4 gigs of ram would be helpful :P
