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Category: Software
List Price: $199.95
Buy New: $93.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 388
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Windows 2000
Color: 1-user
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Full Version
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.5
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: K62620
Model: 66G-00002
UPC: 882224181112
EAN: 0882224181112
ASIN: B000HCTYT4
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Vista Basic: The closest Vista product to XP you can get March 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Windows Vista Basic is worth purchasing for only a few reasons.
1) It is inevitable that at some point (though certainly not now), Windows will stop creating service packs for Windows XP.
2) Regardless of Vista's RAM-consuming ways, companies have shifted and will continue to shift away from creating software compatible with Windows XP towards software compatible with Windows Vista.
3) Vista Basic is, by far, the least RAM-consuming Vista product available. You might be able to run it without using half of your RAM idling. If you want a more advanced Vista, make sure you have a gigabyte or two of RAM to spare to actually do anything.
Anyways, if you use your computer for internet and simple Word/Excel/PowerPoint documents, don't bother switching to Vista. There's no point. If you like to stay on the cutting edge, get Vista, and stand in awe of its Mac-esque bubbly-ness and ability to do nothing while frying your system resources.
 paranoid February 15, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Vista finds everything strange and suspicious, even other microsoft products. Even word documents you wrote yourself will not load without permission being given by a supervisor (I forget the exact title they use) even when you are the only one who uses the computer. You have to do virus checks et al several times a day even if your computer (like mine) is not connected to the internet. It constantly runs programs without asking if you want them or telling you they are running. and then turning the computer off when the program you aren't using turns itself off. Although it is supposed to be compatable with XP programs, it crashes the computer 1/3 of the time if you try to load one. The ones it will run, run at half the screen size. Even programs on your hard drive are pronounced strange and unknown if you dare to try to use them.
All style, no substance February 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bought a new laptop that came with Vista basic on it. I used it for about 15 minutes before I gave up and wiped the hard drive and installed XP. The pointless animations on every menu push the CPU to it's limits, leaving nothing left for, say, internet browsing, or solitaire, for that matter. What especially bugs me is that Vista has such a resemblance to Mac OSX. If I wanted a Mac operating system, I would buy a mac. But no, I guess Microsoft feels threatened, and decided to blend in with the opposition. Well guess what, it didn't work.
Buy Windows XP instead, less flair, more function.
Not bad only if used on an Intel-Based Mac even then it's nothing speical February 3, 2008
I am a MAC user and Leopard walks all over Vista, however I used to run both OS's using my new Macbook Pro and I have grown to tolerate Vista somewhat since I now have a computer than runs Vista with out a hitch. A Hitch meaning I have resources left to do other things other than just run the OS. I choose to buy Home Basic becasue it has the features I was looking for In a Windows OS and allows me access to the windows only programs and games that I cannot access using Leopard. I read the features of all the versions of Vista available and Basic was the only one and chepest one I needed. Premium has extra features that don't mean squat, and Ultimate is used for business mostly with extra features and cash costs that I don't need. So for a Mac user with the new Macbook pro computing power, and the best OS out there (LEOPARD OS X 10.5) it's nice to be able to run windows when you need it (which isn't often using Leopard). Mac's have it all friends, and you can even run Vista better than a PC can. In my opnion Vista was made to run as a secondary OS under Leopard onca MAC that can actually handle it to give Mac users access to windows only programs.
Overall Windows Vista Home Basic although buggy and lame can run on a MAC at it's full potential which again doesen't measure up.
Likewise alot of reviweres have the complaint that Vista needs 2 GB of ram min. to run. My old laptop an Athlon 3500+ 1GB ram 80gb HD system (an XP laptop) loaded Vista Home Premimum easily and handled the OS fine right up until I sold it to buy a Mac. I have yet to see a failed Vista installation, or problems using the OS with systems that have 1GB of ram and less. Still for the best Vista experience, buy a MAC and dual boot or use paralleling software to run it with Leopard.
* Removed Windows Vista Partition, I have Home basic if I need it but for now using Leopard windows is redundant and annoying to upkeep having to download so many damn updates everyday just to run the OS.
HATE IT WITH A PASSION!! January 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Oh my gosh! I hate Windows Vista. My laptop is brand new and it's a good quality laptop and it goes sooo slow! It will freeze with one program running! It takes forever to restart the computer, turn it off..anything I do it takes forever!! I literally sit here and wait for it to do normal things like open up the internet browser window! I have no good things to say about it at all! Sure it looks all nice and pretty but its horrible horrible horrible! I wished I would have read reviews about it before I bought my laptop so I would of known to get it with XP. I'm seriously considering wipping Vista off completely and installing XP. Everyone I've talked to that has it hates it. I haven't heard of anyone that likes it! I gave it way too much credit for giving it one star but it made me.
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