I am not sure if you can call switching to Vista an 'upgrade'.

Same here!

lillianlake said:through your link, it says "store pickup not available", but it may just be my location... Otherwise, I would jump in with a 10% coupon...

psuJC said:Pick it up in store to use the 12%, it's in their ad this week. You have to buy it in store to use any coupons. Price will be 129.99, use the 12 percent coupon you will walk out with vista, and a $50 gift card.

And your rearend will be sore because you just spent $129.99 plus tax - 12% for a gift card and a crappy operating system worse than the previous operating system.

If this is something you want then that is a great price. Green op. Ty.

psuJC said:Link for reference
Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade
Pick up in store to use 12% coupon.

Math
129.99
-15.60 (12% Reward zone coupon Discussion Here or from reward zone packet.
-50.00 gift card (to be used on future purchase)
=64.39

YMMV on using 12% coupon on sale price
Whatever your math is, DO NOT go for an upgrade from your XP system, no matter how much you pay fo rir, it is not worth moving to Vista. Vista came with a laptop I got recently and man, this thing sukz really bad.

Whatever your math is, DO NOT go for an upgrade from your XP system, no matter how much you pay fo rir, it is not worth moving to Vista. Vista came with a laptop I got recently and man, this thing sukz really bad.

Really? I had XP MCE and it had some pretty serious stability problems. I built a new machine with Vista (HPrem.) for MCE, and it had been extremely stable and useful. I can't deny that MS has gone off the deep end with file permissions, but that's been the only real issue. Then again, I've set my desktop theme to Windows Classic ever since I "upgraded" from WinNT, so I'm not confused by where the OS interface has chosen to hide things.

titewad said:dhishi said:Very true - Vista is an expensive piece of junk. I have vista and had to purchase new printers and other hardware components as the drivers available for vista are not 100% compatible. You have to buy new hardware with the Vista logo.Yes, it's a shame your MFM hard drives, parallel printers, 300 baud modem and ISA expansion boards didn't last forever.

Sarcasm aside, drivers for most hardware, modern and "legacy", are either bundled with Vista or can usually be found with the "internet search" option in Device Manager. More significant are software application incompatibilities that either can't or won't be addressed, meaning that many users will need to abandon favorite programs in order to run an OS that has few innovations and in-your-face "pseudo-security." M$ brags that fewer illegal copies of Vista are being used. What they don't get is that computer-savvy hackers are simply not interested. Seriously, if M$ didn't essentially dictate that all new PC's come with Vista, would anyone else be either?

Instead of "upgrading" to Vista, people should just remove half their memory and change the Windows color scheme. It will save them $75 and give them the same experience.

Depending on what you are wanting to do your experience will be very much YMMV.

Don't get me wrong, lots of technology improvements. The day will come when Vista will be a must. And for those that don't have big needs, Vista will be fine within reason.

Those on the bleeding edge, Vista driver rearchitechture was way too much for most hardware vendors to handle even a year after. I still don't know why nVidia cant fix a simple sleep mode bug w/their video card driver.

The memory management improved but seem less robust than XP. It's causing lost of game compatibility problems and perforamnce problems. Don't do Vista for gaming. I tried. I really tried and had to throw in the towel on Supreme Commander.

Oh, and don't get me started on wave/stereo mix output recording. Depending on your driver vendor, my latest one decided for me that I should not be able to record what I'm hearing from my wave out regardless of what it is. That's simply inexcusible...