PC upgrades

Why ultimate instead of home premium?

[quote name='Rydian' post='3359866' date='Dec 30 2010, 07:27 PM']Why ultimate instead of home premium?[/quote]
Because everything but Ultimate sucks?

Besides, it's not like anyone actually BUYS Windows, so it costs the same anyway...

[quote name='macgeek417' post='3362213' date='Dec 31 2010, 12:03 PM'][quote name='Rydian' post='3359866' date='Dec 30 2010, 07:27 PM']Why ultimate instead of home premium?[/quote]Because everything but Ultimate sucks?[/quote]You're going to have to elaborate on that.

[quote name='Rydian' post='3362220' date='Dec 31 2010, 06:06 PM'][quote name='macgeek417' post='3362213' date='Dec 31 2010, 12:03 PM'][quote name='Rydian' post='3359866' date='Dec 30 2010, 07:27 PM']Why ultimate instead of home premium?[/quote]Because everything but Ultimate sucks?[/quote]You're going to have to elaborate on that.
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All the versions of Windows except Ultimate are... just Ultimate with a bunch of features removed.

[quote name='macgeek417' post='3362228' date='Dec 31 2010, 12:10 PM'][quote name='Rydian' post='3362220' date='Dec 31 2010, 06:06 PM'][quote name='macgeek417' post='3362213' date='Dec 31 2010, 12:03 PM'][quote name='Rydian' post='3359866' date='Dec 30 2010, 07:27 PM']Why ultimate instead of home premium?[/quote]Because everything but Ultimate sucks?[/quote]You're going to have to elaborate on that.
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All the versions of Windows except Ultimate are... just Ultimate with a bunch of features removed.
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So if Ultimate sucks...

[quote name='macgeek417' post='3362213' date='Dec 31 2010, 06:03 PM'][quote name='Rydian' post='3359866' date='Dec 30 2010, 07:27 PM']Why ultimate instead of home premium?[/quote]
Because everything but Ultimate sucks?

Besides, it's not like anyone actually BUYS Windows, so it costs the same anyway...
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XD at the grey

I would def go with Professional. Pro has all the features of Ultimate without the resource hogging and was tailored to corporate use.

Ultimate sucks due to its sheer RAM usage (although better than Vista) it is a joke compared to XP and Linux Distros.

Even Home Premium is great if you think performance will take a hit due to RAM size

99.9% of the added features in Ultimate/Pro will never even been used by the regular user, beyond that is included in Home Premium

[quote name='Lolcat' post='3358596' date='Dec 30 2010, 05:32 AM']Ok, I finally decided it would be good to update to windows 7 ultimate from windows vista starter or whatever. Now I have to back up my content and its taking forever. Eh whatever I guess I can wait 2 hours to back up my movies and music.[/quote]
I'm pretty sure u can just upgrade from Windows XP or Windows Vista to Windows 7 without losing any of your files.

But for some stupid reason u can't upgrade from a lower version of Windows 7 (ie. home premium) to a higher version of windows 7 (ie. ultimate).

So since u are on Vista, u should be able to upgrade without losing your files. I think u can even start the installer from within windows vista if u want (booting off the disc will still work though).


@_Chaz_, no one ever said ultimate sucks, somebody did however say that everything other than ultimate sucks.

[quote name='macgeek417' post='3362228' date='Dec 31 2010, 12:10 PM'][quote name='Rydian' post='3362220' date='Dec 31 2010, 06:06 PM'][quote name='macgeek417' post='3362213' date='Dec 31 2010, 12:03 PM'][quote name='Rydian' post='3359866' date='Dec 30 2010, 07:27 PM']Why ultimate instead of home premium?[/quote]Because everything but Ultimate sucks?[/quote]You're going to have to elaborate on that.
[/quote]All the versions of Windows except Ultimate are... just Ultimate with a bunch of features removed.[/quote]Right, but what features are you pissed that they removed?

I mean why care for a feature you don't use?

stuff included in ultimate is just mainly remote desktop and server stuff

[quote name='Joe88' post='3362455' date='Dec 31 2010, 11:07 AM']stuff included in ultimate is just mainly remote desktop and sever stuff[/quote]
Yep, and if you consider yourself a true "poweruser" you turn off all that shit anyways, because they really are just resource wastes, as well as potential security risks. (I had Win7 down to 16 processes on start up) I used Ultimate tho, because it was the most seeded torrent. If your worried about RAM usage, as long as you've got 1GB you should be fine (Even with all the services etc and aero on). If you've got 2GB you should be golden (unless you plan on playing the latest of games). Win7 Ultimate really isn't a RAM hog, it uses RAM pretty clever actually. It will gobble up the free ram and use it as a sort of cache to speed up whatever else your doing, but if you need that RAM it will give it back. It appears to be using alot, when in reality it isn't.

Also I wouldn't trust any of the Windows update crap, moving from one OS to another is always risky buisness. Back up your data properly (which you should be doing regularly anyways) and just do a clean install.

Oh, I know what features ultimate has, I'm just curious if he even knows, let alone uses them.

Also, that smart RAM usage started in Vista, it's called Superfetch. People just bitches about it back then because stores were still selling machines with half a gig of RAM.

A little late, but yes Rydian I knew what it had and that's fine.