It's £95 from ebuyer, but you can get whats known as a "sticker" licence on ebay for about £30. With these you can download a copy and install it but you use the licence key on the sticker which is legit.
Really? See for yourself And the sticker licences are legit, I sorted the licensing out for an internet cafe I used to work at and we paid about £50 for each machine we wanted putting in with windows 98... this was about 5 years ago though.
Shtop wate you can get cheap oem copys for £90. And get full legit upgrade copys from ebay for £20, A full copy would set you £180 from pc world! Your choice!
just my fatha has a laptop there nowt special but he's give it to me he reckons it needs the software XP sorted but if it's not that a new harddrive which he has second doubts about it being this, so like i said just XP it's a toshiba satellite pro 4200 series 15"tft screen and 6.4 GB so he says be sound if i can get it sorted cheers lads
Never ever buy software from PC world Strictly speaking OEM isn't legal unless you're buying hardware to go with it at the same time (hardware being defined as motherboard, hard drive, or CPU).
I've got a Satellite Pro 4600, and the best advice I can give you... Don't put XP on it, you will slow the machine to a crawl. Believe me I've done it, I've upgraded the RAM to 512MB, and the HDD to 40GB and it really struggles with XP. So much so that I've taken it off. If you need an NT style OS for it to run a certain application stick 2000 Pro on instead, it flies
Oh and almost forgot to mention: If your laptop doesn't have an OS on it have a look on the underside. There may be a MS Windows sticker with a licence key. If there is it's cool to download that version of windows and use the licence key on the laptop
sounds as if you know your stuff unlike me questions? NT style OS?? whats this mean m8, only really wanting it to run say reason or abelton or both considering i can get it sorted. my lass has a copy of xp here but going of your advise and considering you've got one obviously your advise is sound as so is it capable good enough to run the above programmes??
When I say NT style OS I mean Windows NT, Windows 2000 or XP. You should be able to run ableton on 2000, the OS is very similar to XP, apart from the fact it isn't as pretty and doesn't have some of the features that XP does (support for WPA wireless encryption for example). Not that you're gonna need that... As far as running ableton on the laptop goes, I don't see why not. Check how much ram it has, you should be able to max it up to 512mb, and as long as you keep it relatively clean with little installed on it you should be able to get away with running it
thats an oem version which isn't legit if you don't buy it with hardware this is the full none oem version http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=15315341045&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=65800
A fact which I stated several posts ago but you seem to have missed... If I wanted to make it a legal OEM copy I would just add something cheap like this . For the sum of £2 I can get a cheap shitty mouse I will more than likely never use and I still save £50 on the price you got
Yeah, the normal OEM they sell states that there must be hardware accompanying it: 97544 is the one I linked to
Who even buys full software these days when OEM is available?? I got myself an official copy of XP pro w/SP2 off ebay for £57 inc delivery. Chuffed
