Vista Pricing, Part 2
In the United States, CompUSA offers Windows Vista, as well as other Operating Systems, at the following prices:
Vista Ultimate: $400
Vista Ultimate Upgrade: $260
Vista Home Premium: $240
Vista Home Premium Upgrade: $160
Now look at Mac OS X Tiger (which is most comparable to Vista Ultimate): $130
So Vista Ultimate = OS X and you pay 3X as much for Vista? Thanks, but no thanks.
Compare Vista with a variety of Linuxes:
Linspire: $60
Xandros Desktop: $70
openSUSE: free
Ubuntu: free
Even "OEM" versions of Vista (at half-price) are overpriced compared to OS X and Linux!
Anyone who pays retail for Vista should have the word "Sucker" emblazoned on his forehead...
Vista Ultimate: $400
Vista Ultimate Upgrade: $260
Vista Home Premium: $240
Vista Home Premium Upgrade: $160
Now look at Mac OS X Tiger (which is most comparable to Vista Ultimate): $130
So Vista Ultimate = OS X and you pay 3X as much for Vista? Thanks, but no thanks.
Compare Vista with a variety of Linuxes:
Linspire: $60
Xandros Desktop: $70
openSUSE: free
Ubuntu: free
Even "OEM" versions of Vista (at half-price) are overpriced compared to OS X and Linux!
Anyone who pays retail for Vista should have the word "Sucker" emblazoned on his forehead...
posted by Darkest Knight | 11:42 AM
1 Comments:
I would suggest Vista is not for installing on existing computers. I should imagine the ability to do that would tax most normal people; rather it's to buy a whole new computer system with it already installed.
Personally I already ditched windows on two machines and installed Ubuntu.
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