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Nov
2009
Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack Upgrade – A Great Deal
If you have multiple home computers the Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack (Staples) for $149 3/pack is a great deal for a 3 computer upgrade resulting in a $50 per computer upgrade.
With multiple computers this 3 pack upgrade, you can upgrade your least used computer and test it. This allows you to find out what software/hardware may or may not work. This is similar to my situation where I installed a Dual Boot with XP and Windows 7.
I have found that the Windows 7 is fast and stable on my machine, Core 2 Duo 2.8ghz, 4gig Ram, 512mb Video card, which is newer hardware but average for todays systems. Moving from Win Xp I have been content with some programs for multiple years, but some compatibility issues have surprised me and some were less surprising. Outlook 2003 not connecting to my SBS server 2003 Exchange did surprise me especially it all being from Microsoft. Another one that surprised me was my WS_FTP 2007 which is not that old, but it would also not work in Win 7, but I could upgrade to WS_FTP 12 which would work. But I am also looking at a Free OpenSource FTP Client (File Zilla). OpenSource applications, Open Office, and Google Docs are great alternatives to being forced to buy new software all at once for multiple computers if there are compatibility issues.
If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here’s what it takes:
- 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
- 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
- DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Scott B