[SOLVED] Is this a good price for Win7?

The Retailer that I buy all my hardware from is currently offering OEM versions (64bit) of Win 7.

Do these sound like good prices. Remember we are talking Aus. $

Premium $135
Pro $175
Ultimate $219

I'd either go Pro or ultimate

I did a quick check on MS website it says
Windows 7 Home Premium Full

Full




Please select a delivery option: Download[?]$299.00
Download + Backup Disk[?]$299.00 + $22.99

$299.00 $299.00








$299.00 $299.00



Windows 7 Professional Full

Full




Please select a delivery option: Download[?]$449.00
Download + Backup Disk[?]$449.00 + $22.99

$449.00 $449.00








$449.00 $449.00



Windows 7 Ultimate Full

Full




Please select a delivery option: Download[?]$469.00
Download + Backup Disk[?]$469.00 + $22.99

$469.00 $469.00








$469.00 $469.00

I'd strongly suggest forking out a little extra for ultimate because you can convert it to home prem/pro if you want [but you would need to get an other key for it]

These prices you guote are retail prices and not OEM prices. Check newegg for OEM prices, they currently have free shipping.

www.newegg.com

LeHam - MOST users don't need the extra features offered by Ultimate, it's a waste of money.

I would recommend Pro, it has nearly all the features and saves money. All you get extra with Ultimate is BitLocker and 8,000 language updates.

True Crypt does a better job than BitLocker and is free!

@Kalario - Mychael is from "down under" and so Newegg isn't available to those blokes.

The latest currency converter shows that in US Dollars the Pro version OEM would be $149.19

Newegg's price is $139.99 w/free shipping, so a $10 difference isn't that bad really.

I found a copy at an Australian site called Devon Software of Windows 7 Pro OEM for $129.99 plus $12.99 shipping in Australian Dollars.

http://devonsoftware.com.au/product_...ducts_id=23468

Thanks Nibs for settting me straight.

Well, I hope you didn't take it the wrong way, I was just trying to clarify things a little.

I hope Mychael will find a cost-effective version that meets his budget.

I'm cool.

BTW I a just bought a win 7 Home edition 64 bit from newegg, going to do a clean install on a 1 year old dell laptop E6400. 4GB memory and 160 GB hard drive. This is going to be my 3rd install of win7 and for the first time going to partition the hard drive. Keeping my fingers crossed.

That's cool! I hope it all goes smoothly for ya! Pretty soon you'll be an expert at the Windows 7 install process!

Just remember that when you get to the portion of the install that shows the hard drive and such to delete all the existing partitions and create new ones.

When you create the new partition(s), the install asks for it in MB instead of GB.

So if you want a 32 GB partition, you take the number 32,000 x 1.024 = 32,768 MB, if you enter that number you'll get an exact 32 GB partition. And so forth, such as 64 GB = 65536

Have Fun! Be sure to download all the necessary x64 drivers for your notebook before the install.

great point!!!!

Is it as simple as downloading all the necessay x64 drivers for my notebook and saving them on an external HD, then after the win7 install, installing all these drivers?