Iria

I’m really hoping that Steven Sinofsky will kick off a discussion about Windows 7 pricing over on the Engineering Windows 7 blog sometime soon. I’m not holding my breath because the chances of seeing an open debate on pricing is highly unlikely, but I can dream, can’t I?
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Source: Hardware 2.0

Customgamer1

They should do this:

3 versions:

Home, Business, Ultimate

Home $100

Business can be whatever with all the license crap that they have to deal with, but about $100 or less per computer is good.

Ultimate = $175 to $200.

Really the Home edition should have everything needed like it does for Vista and should not be over $100.

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MitchRapp

will never happen ... microsoft products will always cost an arm and a leg (or more)

mac_angel

personally, I've been thinking they should have a gamer edition. One without all the flashy BS and crap load of additives that most people don't use but take up system resourses. When XP came out I used Win2000 Server for the longest time because it was basic, didn't have a lot of pretty crap on it, did what I needed, and didn't suck up system resources.

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Vista Ultimate 64
XPS M1710. - Core Duo T7600G @ 2.83Ghz. 4GB DDR2-667, Hitachi SATA 200GB 16MB Cache 7200rpm, 512MB Geforce Go 7950 GTX @ 660 core/ 760 mem, Matshita Blue-Ray burner, Dell Wireless 1500 Draft-N, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR tech.
Zalman ZM-NC1000 notebook cooler (makes a HUGE difference)
Shin Etsu X23-7783D thermal paste (blueskybasin@gmail.com - mention where you got his e-mail)

OldBuzzard

I just can't understand all the bitiching about $200.00 for an operating system.

Especially from people that will buy and install multiple games at $30-50 each, that in the end cost MORE than the OS.

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Zelig

Thing is, none of the extra stuff takes GPU power, and it takes negligable CPU power except when idle, so the fps of games isn't going to differ.

The only real differences are going to be in memory usage and HDD space, both of which are dirt cheap. ($50 for 4GB of RAM, $95 for a 750GB HDD)

Furthermore, the vast majority of people don't need to pay $200 for an OS, $100 will get Vista Home Premium OEM, which will work fine.

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