Dates: Saturday October 7th & Sunday October 8th, 2006
Two Locations: Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus / Mountain View. Email us to register. Silicon Valley Code Camp / Foothills College in Los Altos – Visit this site to register.
Timeslots: There are a maximum of 80 openings per timeslot each day.
1. 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM 2. 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Checklist/Criteria to attend:
1. All important data has been backed up! 2. My PC’s Operating System is Windows XP SP2 (Home, Professional, Tablet PC or Media Center Edition) English x86. 3. My PC has an Intel/AMD Processor running at 1 GHz or higher. 4. My PC has a minimum of 512MB of RAM. 5. My PC’s Video adapter is AGP4x/8x or PCIe with a minimum of 64MB of RAM. 6. My PC’s Hard Disk has a minimum of 15GB of free space (on the same partition as Windows XP) to allow for upgrade. 7. My PC has a DVD-ROM Drive.
Resources we provide:
* Monitors, Keyboards, Mice, Network Cables, and Speakers. * Windows Vista Ultimate Edition DVD. * Food, beverages and a gift for participating!
4. My PC has a minimum of 512MB of RAM. Hmm... Windows Vista minimum memory requirement is supposed to be 1GB... wonder if it'll crawl with 512MB or if they pulled the 1GB requirement out of their ... thin air...
kamikadze said: Hmm... Windows Vista minimum memory requirement is supposed to be 1GB... wonder if it'll crawl with 512MB or if they pulled the 1GB requirement out of their ... thin air...Minimum is actually 512MB as listed here. "Vista Premium" machines will have 1GB.
Sweet! I'm in. I just emailed. Hopefully they are still slots open.
I remember going to something like this up in Seattle when Win98 came out and they actually gave me a MS Sidewinder joystick (the really expensive one) on my way out, which was pretty spectacular from the perspective a middle school kid. I hope the "gift" they mention is something of that caliber.
newscientist2000
Senior Member
posted: Sep. 15, 2006 @ 12:00a
It sure would be nice to get a copy of Windows Vista, heck I'ld settle for XP Pro right now as Im on XP Home.
If this were in San Diego I'ld totally be there lets hope Microsoft can bring these events to some other locations too!
gssethi
Ancient Member
posted: Sep. 15, 2006 @ 12:03a
Can I take my laptop ? I meet all the criteria except for the video card. Mine only has 32mb of video ram
kolakone
Member
posted: Sep. 15, 2006 @ 12:03a
I registered for the Vista Install Fair thru the codecamp web site. And got a confirmation screen. However there is no confirmation email yet, keeping fingers crossed...
OK said: Good deal. Too bad I live some 3,000 miles away.
Bummer
Considering the crazy price of Vista Ultimate, if you are planning on buying it, it might be cheaper to pay for the plane ticket and fly out for this event. Plus you get a trip out of it.
zainali
Senior Member - 2K
posted: Sep. 15, 2006 @ 12:22a
GreenMonkey said: OK said: Good deal. Too bad I live some 3,000 miles away.
Bummer
Considering the crazy price of Vista Ultimate, if you are planning on buying it, you might be better off paying for the plane ticket Plus you get a trip out of it.
ultimate will probably be $200 at newegg for oem versions.
GreenMonkey said: OK said: Good deal. Too bad I live some 3,000 miles away.
Bummer
Considering the crazy price of Vista Ultimate, if you are planning on buying it, it might be cheaper to pay for the plane ticket and fly out for this event. Plus you get a trip out of it.
It comes free on all new $300 computers.
bookworm15637
New Member
posted: Sep. 15, 2006 @ 12:29a
Do you need to have XP or can u come pre-installed with SC1?
zainali said: GreenMonkey said: OK said: Good deal. Too bad I live some 3,000 miles away.
Bummer
Considering the crazy price of Vista Ultimate, if you are planning on buying it, you might be better off paying for the plane ticket Plus you get a trip out of it.
ultimate will probably be $200 at newegg for oem versions.
MS just announced the prices and Ultimate is going to be $400 ($260 for upgrade). Home Basic will be $200 ($100 upgrade)
That's kind of old news... I mean Amazon's had it for preorder at those prices for a while now...
stisev
Ancient Member
posted: Sep. 15, 2006 @ 12:42a
Thx OP. Green! Emailed!
zainali
Senior Member - 2K
posted: Sep. 15, 2006 @ 12:43a
Yuyak said: zainali said: GreenMonkey said: OK said: Good deal. Too bad I live some 3,000 miles away.
Bummer
Considering the crazy price of Vista Ultimate, if you are planning on buying it, you might be better off paying for the plane ticket Plus you get a trip out of it.
ultimate will probably be $200 at newegg for oem versions.
MS just announced the prices and Ultimate is going to be $400 ($260 for upgrade). Home Basic will be $200 ($100 upgrade)
OEM version. oem of xp pro is about $150 (half the retail price).
i hope this is organized. i dont want to go there and run around for a copy of vista.
There's nothing in that image for me. I've tried hitting that show another set button a bunch of times and there still is no image. I am using IE.
dealmania said: Click the 'Show me another set of characters' button which is right above the submit button and it will show an image next to the 'Try Again' text
Type in that text in the image. You may need to re-type the password as clicking that button will erase the password
WKnt
Senior Member
posted: Sep. 15, 2006 @ 2:09a
Thanks OP! I registered through another person's link... at foothill. I'll try to make that 400+ mile drive. Good excuse for a fun drive... No confirmation yet though. Just a webpage that says "Confirmation Screen". We'll see....
WKnt said: Thanks OP! I registered through another person's link... at foothill. I'll try to make that 400+ mile drive. Good excuse for a fun drive... No confirmation yet though. Just a webpage that says "Confirmation Screen". We'll see.... Wouldn't it be faster and easier if you just downloaded it? (There are links in the computer forum, but PM me if you can't find them)
Edit: Whoops...looks like at least one of the fairs is offering a free copy of Vista after release. Can't get that via the CPP! So this is a better deal than downloading.
puppyfriend said: There's nothing in that image for me. I've tried hitting that show another set button a bunch of times and there still is no image. I am using IE.
dealmania said: Click the 'Show me another set of characters' button which is right above the submit button and it will show an image next to the 'Try Again' text
Type in that text in the image. You may need to re-type the password as clicking that button will erase the password
I use firefox. Fill in all the info before you hit that button. Just tried it. It works. The image won't show up on the initial page load. I had to press that button to get that image.
Finally got mine today. I had to call DHL to ask why it's just been sitting in Santa Clara for days. The response I got was "I don't know.". But I called last night and it showed up today. A little banged up, but that's OK.
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