Tachikoma said:
chapset said:
You do know you need a previous version of windows to get windows 10 right?
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You can use the generic key given out during the insider program to activate windows 10 for the full free year, you can upgrade from even pirated versions of windows 7 to retail windows 10 for a full year, microsoft really don't care because they get to pip them at the post with a required payment in a years time, meanwhile in that year of Windows 10 usage, you could buy an earlier version of windows, such as 7 or 8 for cheap and replace the install at whatever time suits you.
Point is though, you don't actually need a previous version of windows to get it, that's a common misunderstanding.
chapset said:
you do know it's free for 1 year right?
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Yes, which is what I said.
chapset said:
where did I say that the keyboard, mouse and disk drive was 250$, here in Canada an OS is 100$.
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You implied it by listing a price of $750, which is $250 over OP's.
chapset said:
and if you are going to game on your pc why would you buy some cheap ass 10$ mouse or keyboard.
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Because the majority of modern PC games can be played on gamepads, just about any gamepad, which most people already have.
chapset said:
Also before you give me steam OS or linux as an answer, know that Valve themselfs said that the steam OS wasn't a full OS but an OS geared toward gaming, and for linux good luck finding the linux version of you favorite programs.
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SteamOS is geared towards just gaming, if you are building a PC just for games it's a viable option, it may not have as many caompatible games as windows but it still has over 1700, and hundreds are added every month, as for installing a vanilla version of Linux, a majority of windows applications can be used using software like Wine.
chapset said:
Also maybe it just happened to me but the reason why I added the optical drive is beucause when I build my pc a few months ago I couldn't even connect to the Internet because the drivers for my network card were not up to date, so I had to get the disk drive from my old pc to use the disk included with my mobo and update using that.
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It's rare for a modern motherboard on a modern OS to not hahve compatible drivers out of the box, still, a bog standard SATA dvd drive is like $10 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA9AX3HB2661
Additionally, if you already had a computer/laptop prior to building a new PC, common sense would be to download the latest available drivers for the components you ordered, before building the new pc, you can even download them on your phone then connect your phone via usb to the computer and copy the drivers over.
As for the OS argument in general, you can pretty reliably obtain a licensed copy of Windows for as little as $20 these days, as shown in an earlier post, but let's be honest here, there's always the piracy option, too, for both the OS and the games.
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