Argos-free Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade

Canonfan

When bought with any Netbook with Win 7 Starter. Just add cat no 5084100 to your order (worth 99.99euro).

Might be useful for someone. Link of the upgrade pack

maygitchell

Canonfan wrote: »

When bought with any Netbook with Win 7 Starter. Just add cat no 5084100 to your order (worth 99.99euro).

Might be useful for someone. Link of the upgrade pack

Tbh, any of the entry-level netbooks do fine with starter due to the constrained memory, in fact in my experience Win XP is the way to go

Alanstrainor

maygitchell wrote: »

Tbh, any of the entry-level netbooks do fine with starter due to the constrained memory, in fact in my experience Win XP is the way to go

But it's free...

And also RAM is very cheap these days, wouldn't worry about that. I run Win7 ultimate on my netbook without issue, and it's running on a first gen atom. No problems at all with it.

maygitchell

Alanstrainor wrote: »

But it's free...

And also RAM is very cheap these days, wouldn't worry about that. I run Win7 ultimate on my netbook without issue, and it's running on a first gen atom. No problems at all with it.

Each to their own, im not saying it isnt a good deal, but my samsung atom 1gig struggles to multitask on win 7 starter, a memory upgrade would cost 40 bucks on ebay, considering i got the netbook for €120 s/h, its a bit of an expensive upgrade

Canonfan

maygitchell wrote: »

Each to their own, im not saying it isnt a good deal, but my samsung atom 1gig struggles to multitask on win 7 starter, a memory upgrade would cost 40 bucks on ebay, considering i got the netbook for €120 s/h, its a bit of an expensive upgrade

I picked up the Asus 1011px with dual-core N570 and Windows 7 upgrading pack for 249euro, very happy so far. Already selling my upgrading pack on adverts, need money for ram.:D

You can find a 2GB DDR3 ram for below 20euro easily.

maygitchell

Canonfan wrote: »

I picked up the Asus 1011px with dual-core N570 and Windows 7 upgrading pack for 249euro, very happy so far. Already selling my upgrading pack on adverts, need money for ram.:D

You can find a 2GB DDR3 ram for below 20euro easily.

Linky?

Canonfan

maygitchell wrote: »

Linky?

Amazon £13.49(15.78euro) delivered

Komplett 2x2GB for 33.95euro free delivery.

Also there are other website based in the UK I won't list them all.

unkel

Alanstrainor wrote: »

I run Win7 ultimate on my netbook without issue, and it's running on a first gen atom. No problems at all with it.

Ditto. Acer Aspire (over 3 years old) with 1GB RAM and a tiny 8GB SSD and works fine!

vibe666

my wife's samsung NC10 netbook (single core n270 atom) runs windows 7 just fine with 2gb of ram, as did my acer revo r3610 (dual core atom 330) nettop and that gets used as a HD media centre and download box.

and yes, DDR3 is as cheap as chips these days so there's no reason not to. it's so cheap that i actually bought 2x 4gb sticks of DDR3 for my work laptop out of my own pocket as it was lagging a bit.

cgarrad

I'm actually finding that a fully patched brand new install of XP to be quiet slow now.

Mayby Im just used to faster computers but it does make sense :rolleyes:

Alanstrainor

unkel wrote: »

Ditto. Acer Aspire (over 3 years old) with 1GB RAM and a tiny 8GB SSD and works fine!

Hahaha, you went one step further with that SSD, at least mine has a proper hard drive! Fair play!

unkel

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Hahaha, you went one step further with that SSD, at least mine has a proper hard drive! Fair play!

I only bought it last week. It was advertised as 1GB and 16GB but turned out to have only 512MB and 8GB. But that was an honest mistake by the seller and I got it for €80 delivered in perfect condition

tombull82

Not working now? Or was discount taken off at the till? Where did you see the offer?

Canonfan

Argos offers normally only last a few days, I'm sure it's finished. It was showing on a red promotional catalog.

tombull82

Thanks CF.
Just wanted to be sure as I wasbuying a netbook for my daughter either way and thought I may aswell get the best deal going

tombull82

Double post. Oops. :-)

Canonfan

tombull82 wrote: »

Thanks CF.
Just wanted to be sure as I wasbuying a netbook for my daughter either way and thought I may aswell get the best deal going

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