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#171440 - 20/07/2003 10:28 Cheapest place to find WinXP?
burdell1 old hand Registered: 14/01/2002 Posts: 931 Loc: Minnetonka, MN	Where is the cheapest place to find WinXP? I originally wanted the Professional edition, but the Home one would be ok too....
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#171441 - 20/07/2003 10:37 Re: Cheapest place to find WinXP? [Re: burdell1]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3996 Loc: Manchester UK	Kazaa? Seriously, most hardware retailers will sell you OEM software as long as you buy some hardware. I managed to get a dozen copies of 2K OEM by buying a £3 mouse with each one! _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#171442 - 20/07/2003 12:33 Re: Cheapest place to find WinXP? [Re: burdell1]
Jerz addict Registered: 13/07/2002 Posts: 634 Loc: Jesusland	I bought the oem version of xp pro from newegg.com Like Andy said you just need to buy something trivial along with it like a $5.00 hard drive power splitter (don't know the technical name for that).
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#171443 - 20/07/2003 13:32 Re: Cheapest place to find WinXP? [Re: Jerz]
DeadFire addict Registered: 30/05/2002 Posts: 695	One of the many many devices that fall under the name "Y adapter."
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#171444 - 20/07/2003 13:34 Re: Cheapest place to find WinXP? [Re: burdell1]
DeadFire addict Registered: 30/05/2002 Posts: 695	You don't want a Home Edition of Windows. Through brief use of XP Pro, it seems to me like it's basically Win2K Pro with even more crap bolted on. That is assuming that you go to the trouble of making it look like Windows again, as I did, because I didn't like TeletubbiesOS.
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#171445 - 20/07/2003 15:11 Re: Cheapest place to find WinXP? [Re: burdell1]
jamville journeyman Registered: 23/08/2002 Posts: 93 Loc: South Texas	I found XP Pro for $149.00 @ the following link: http://www.bcd2000.com/index.asp?CartId={636C147D-18C8-413A-902C-58322B8CFB7E}&from=default You can probally find it for less. (I wasn't looking for it.) _________________________ Joe Mumme
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#171446 - 20/07/2003 15:17 Re: Cheapest place to find WinXP? [Re: jamville]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	Pricewatch has a software category now. There's a bunch of people selling something with the following description for $7:Preinstallation CD allows you to install win. XP (Not an OS) without CDKey and customize it before you sell I'm guessing that that's not what you want, or that it would be not much better than Kazaa if it was. Otherwise, it seems to get down to about $90 for an OEM version. _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#171447 - 21/07/2003 09:18 Re: Cheapest place to find WinXP? [Re: andym]
CrackersMcCheese pooh-bah Registered: 14/01/2002 Posts: 2489	Where from Andy?
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#171448 - 21/07/2003 10:00 Re: Cheapest place to find WinXP? [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3996 Loc: Manchester UK	You could try Scan or Aria, they were both willing to do it. I think we ended up going with Aria because they already had a SAP account with us. _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#171449 - 22/07/2003 09:46 Re: Cheapest place to find WinXP? [Re: wfaulk]
drakino carpal tunnel Registered: 08/06/1999 Posts: 7868	Preinstallation CD allows you to install win. XP (Not an OS) without CDKey and customize it before you sell I'm guessing that that's not what you want, or that it would be not much better than Kazaa if it was. Otherwise, it seems to get down to about $90 for an OEM version. This sounds like Windows PE, a preinstall tool MS has, and is what Longhorn's install routine is driven by. Definitly won't help if someone is looking for the actual OS.
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