anyone else buy a computer within the last few months (before vista was released) and registered for your free vista upgrade?

i checked http://www.dellvistaupgrade.com and the order status says its been shipped (its been saying this for about 2 weeks now). but the FAQ says that once it ships they will email me and give me a tracking number

my email and shipping address are correct on the form, but i've received no email and no vista in the mail


anyone else got this issue?

3/27/2007 9:56:06 PM

Dell's probably waiting until vista will actually work with their hardware and not fuck everything up. At this point, dell is protecting you.

3/27/2007 10:27:47 PM

There must be a mixup with your mail, I ordered one 2 weeks ago and it came in yesterday.

3/27/2007 11:00:02 PM

no, i didnt "order" it

it had a free upgrade that you register for and they mail it to you eventually

what i dont understand if ^^ is why it says it has shipped on the order status page, but i havent gotten an email

3/27/2007 11:06:24 PM

Call their support line. Pain in the butt, but they should be able to tell you whats up. Can be simple things from time-to-time.

[Edited on March 28, 2007 at 6:15 AM. Reason : .]

3/28/2007 6:15:07 AM

I missed the cutoff for the vista upgrade by a few days. I forget the actual dates but it was something like if you purchased a comp after Oct 16 you'll get vista and I bought mine on the 13th

3/28/2007 6:45:11 AM

you really dont want vista

3/28/2007 7:40:12 AM

^^Now you just have to figure out what you are going to do with all of those extra system resources

[Edited on March 28, 2007 at 7:43 AM. Reason : ^^]

3/28/2007 7:43:32 AM

it has even been suggestion by it professionals that vista just may be the os to skip and or at least wait until a huge service pack comes before you even try to install, especially if you are not so technical.

3/28/2007 7:55:11 AM

stay away from vista if you like playing games or running most entertainment driven software... its a pita to get working if you can at all. i tried with a free full version of vista business and have since gone back to xp till a service pack comes out to fix all of that retardedness.

3/28/2007 9:41:11 AM

Quote :

"stay away from vista"

3/28/2007 9:47:31 AM

i wasnt going to install it right away

i just know that i was charged 10 bucks for shipping and id like to get a delivery

3/28/2007 12:12:17 PM

Quote :

"stay away from vista if you like playing games or running most entertainment driven software... its a pita to get working if you can at all. i tried with a free full version of vista business and have since gone back to xp till a service pack comes out to fix all of that retardedness."

I've been running Vista from day one, no problem with any games or apps yet.

3/28/2007 12:23:11 PM

Quote :

"I've been running Vista from day one, no problem with any games or apps yet."

Same with the guy in the cube next to me, my parents, and the couple of guys on my hockey team that said they have Vista.

3/28/2007 12:54:24 PM

i have Vista Home Premium on my 2yo Dell laptop and it runs actually faster now than it did with XP. applications start up immediately in Vista whereas in XP, there was usually a delay. also, when coming out of standby it comes out immediately as well where with XP it took a second or two.

3/28/2007 1:26:19 PM

I went back to XP..

3/28/2007 1:57:04 PM

Please keep this thread on topic. There are tons of bitch, whine, and moan (or praise in rare instances) Vista threads out there already. kk, thnx.

3/28/2007 7:49:08 PM

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"I've been running Vista from day one, no problem with any games or apps yet."

Yeah, I've never had any problems with drivers or running anything on Dell machines. The only reason I prefer to stay away is because the thing idles (no open programs other than the OS) at over half a gig of memory. I've got my XP installation idling at just under 90MB of memory.

3/29/2007 7:01:52 AM

for the 10000000th fucking time

the extra memory is used by superfetch.

Its preloads commonly used programs into memory so they launch faster. If another application needs the ram, then its given up.

If its idling then it doesn't fucking matter if it uses a gig of ram for prefetch because you aren't doing shit with it anyways. End result is either no performance gain or a large performance gain. Theres no downside.

3/29/2007 7:51:35 AM

Quote :

"stay away from vista"

[Edited on March 29, 2007 at 8:09 AM. Reason : .]

3/29/2007 8:09:15 AM

^^Thanks for the info. Helped me find this:

Quote :

"To disable Superfetching, click Start - Run and type “services.msc” without the quotes and press Enter. Then scroll down to Superfetching, double click Superfetching and set it from Automatic to Disabled."

From my system I'm guessing they still have some kinks to work out.

3/29/2007 8:21:14 AM

hurrr

yes lets disable performance improvements

3/29/2007 2:30:19 PM

rofl that's hilarious how you explained that just so he could turn it off.

3/29/2007 3:07:40 PM

WHAT THE FUCK IS SO HARD ABOUT DELIVERING TO THIS ADDRESS


not only has my shit been delivered to the wrong address, it was delivered there over 3 weeks ago
Just now has the Dell Order Status page put up a tracking number.

this is the second time in 3 "specialist" delivery companies that have sent my shit to the wrong place.

DHL, FedEx can suck cocks


UPS is superior

3/30/2007 12:56:30 AM

yo dweedle can i make an iso of that?

[Edited on March 30, 2007 at 3:25 AM. Reason : hit me up on the lo lo]

3/30/2007 3:24:50 AM

bttt

3/30/2007 5:48:46 PM

bttb

3/30/2007 5:51:10 PM

i guess thats a no no on the lo lo

3/30/2007 6:07:26 PM

how could you get an iso when there is nothing to iso

3/30/2007 6:40:47 PM

oh my bad i thougth you were getting some cd that was gonna have vista on it

3/30/2007 6:44:56 PM

yea i thought so too

3/30/2007 6:51:37 PM

*sigh* such illegal activities going on...

3/30/2007 7:36:41 PM

its not illegal if i lost my copy and have a legit key...

3/30/2007 7:49:26 PM

its not illegal if i downloaded a copy and used a crack

o wait...

3/30/2007 8:01:08 PM