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Win 7 OEM ??

  • 15-09-2009 8:28pm
    #1
    evil-monkey
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    Anyone know if there's any OEM versions of Win 7 for sale anywhere yet?? Looked in all the usual spots but no sign. I was under the impression that the OEM version shipped a month or so ago, and that buy now there'd be a few places offering them to the general public (eBay & Play both had OEMs of Vista quite quickly).

    Thanks in advance :D


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  • #2
    evil-monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭evil-monkey


    betafrog wrote: »
    As far as I'm aware it was only released to OEM's, eg Copies were sent to DELL, IBM etc so that they could start manufacturing machines for it.. I don't believe OEM copies have been released to retail yet...

    Any idea when they will be?? I thought OEMs were usually released to retail around the same time they were released to the likes of Dell etc. I expected to at least see a few copies that slipped through the cracks up on eBay by now.

    I want to get Vista off my machine now. I had contemplated moving to a Linux distro as I'm very familiar with Unix from college, but I do a good bit of gaming so have to stick with Windows. Have Win 7 beta on my laptop and it's so so nice on the resources. My machine has a good spec but all the same, Vista is just such a hog, and I usually have a VM or two in operation at the same time. I don't know can I wait out until October 22nd, and even at that I don't want a retail copy. Not paying for support I won't use.


  • #3
    Cryos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Cryos


    Microsoft Approved First wave OEMS get win 7 on RTM (so start of august) however other streams will start end of october.


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