Those who went to the vista hunt, if you remember the Logo thingy that you have to figure out, it was clearly an Ftec. Wtf did they say Acer.

Anyways, Left when the announcer says no. is 82/85. Bummer.

The Aero looks different IRL than what you see online, have to see it to believe it.!!

anyone participated the fear factor in lowyat today?
a HP desktop to win
i hopw to win 1 too

I thought i saw the Home Premium software sellin at Rm380...

Well,the Directx10 thing makes me drool...Haha and itz temptin to upgrade to it nw..But will definitely get a new pc to experience it..Mine's gettin old de...

Back from Lowyat Plaza too...my biggest surprise is that the Vista retail packs are only 1/2 the size i imagined!

There were about 10-20 computers running Vista over there. Many were laptops, but there were a few desktops, and also one badass Core 2 Quad gaming rig. Cost RM8k without monitor.

I didn't spend much time there, so I only got to play a game of Chess Titans on a laptop...I lost on the easiest setting....damn off form sia Anyway, I guess I'll be waiting for a while until Vista becomes more stable, then I'll get an OEM copy of Home Premium together with my next comp upgrade. Cheers!

This post has been edited by yu_wang: Feb 3 2007, 11:25 PM

half the size BUT double the price

The retail pack looked cooler than I saw from the web. But I've never regretted getting a OEM since I got my new rig, I'm entitled to it and it's more than 50% cheaper, that's it.

What do I get for OEM? will I be able to get all the features? I interested if the price is 50% cheaper.

You get all the features. Yes. It's just like your retail version but with different license term.

I'm not going to list out all the details, but here's the highlight

- OEM is only distributed / pre-installed on a new PC. It's not legal to install it on a used PC.

- Once you activated your OEM Vista, the hardware information will be sent to Microsoft. If you intend to activate it on a different machine, the activation will fail. In contrast, for retail, the license can be transferred from one machine to another (be it new or old).

- For OEM, the support is provided by the vendor/PC manufacturer. For retail, the support is provided by Microsoft.

Anyways, I've posted some footage of the launch event here
http://ck.spherebox.com/2007/02/03/vista-l...-day-1-footage/

Comments are welcome

This post has been edited by samurai1337: Feb 4 2007, 12:58 AM

i just got myself a copy of vista home premium.. hihi

If me not mistaken, we can transfer the license of the retail vista from one PC to another but we cannot do that with OEM.
Is that true?
Means the OEM of vista is tied to the mobo, but OEM of XP dun tied to anything, can transfer whenever however we want.

Quoted from AnandTech.
Almost had myself getting OEM of Home Premium >_<
But the retail version of Home Premium is almost RM1k~!
*keep using the ahem Vista Oltimate b4 found a cheaper Home Premium*

EDIT: Wrong quote tag.

This post has been edited by Pip_X: Feb 4 2007, 01:26 AM

This dude able to activate his Vista Ultimate OEM on another PC...
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=352&type=expert&pid=4

yeah he is able to do it.. but actually it is illegal to do so

So confirmed already the price of retail Home Premium is 1k?

If you want to get cheaper retail, get it in software exchange
http://www.softwareexchange.com.my - the price is RM892 for now

This post has been edited by samurai1337: Feb 4 2007, 07:37 AM

wah so expensive, with prices like that no wonder so many resort to ** one. but the Oem is reasonably priced I guess. After it's more stable and when I want to upgrade to dual core, I'll probably get the home premium. maybe year's end.

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Added on February 4, 2007, 7:51 amwhat happens if we upgrade the CPU or RAM on vista OEM? will that affect anything? do we have to reactivate?

This post has been edited by mzms: Feb 4 2007, 07:51 AM

so anyone from the treasure hunt contest can put up the questions here ?

How much was the retail version of Ultimate going for?

Here it goes...excerpt of the question paper


(Please PM me for removal if it's unlawful to post it here)

wow.. i like the way they (MS) put up the words in the riddles..
cool

This post has been edited by kupang: Feb 4 2007, 11:58 AM

To the testers who got their RTM key: Our version has a Retail or OEM license ar ? I forget.

Just got back from Low Yat this morning. For those of you asking for the price...



Got it from the Cycom booth outside Low Yat.

The Cycom promoter say all vista retail are 32bit. 64bit for server only. Can download from internet.
Is this true? I was under the impression when we buy retail version we get bot 32bit and 64bit edition.

All the review I have read say got this option. Maybe local edition is different...anyone can verify this?