# Windows 7, $29.99 for students
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [September 18, 2009, 11:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723 "2009-09-18T11:35:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Treads4Heads](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Treads4Heads)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 11:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/1 "2009-09-18T11:35:17Z")
[[COLOR=black]www.win741.com](http://www.win741.com/)[/COLOR]
From everything I heard, windows 7 is supposed to be a HUGE improvement from Vista, and actually bring some pride back to windows OS’s.
In for one when I get home.
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### Author:  [@Adictd2b00st](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Adictd2b00st)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/2 "2009-09-18T11:54:34Z")
Worth checking out on a bit older machine thats running windows xp? Or is it going to be kind of a memory hog like vista was?
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### Author:  [@travisn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/travisn)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 12:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/3 "2009-09-18T12:08:38Z")
this looks neat. I see the license is perpetual, as in it wont expire right? I dont want to get this then have it expire in 6 mos or whatever.
I currently have vista and love it… any demo videos out there?
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### Author:  [@Treads4Heads](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Treads4Heads)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/4 "2009-09-18T12:12:30Z")
I have yet to use it but everyone I have talked to has loved it. Think of it as taking the good (very few) things out of vista, slapping it into xp, and making the whole thing run faster than any OS they have made.
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### Author:  [@tour](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tour)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/5 "2009-09-18T12:17:00Z")
in for one if someone in college will get it for me.
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### Author:  [@mike125k](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mike125k)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/6 "2009-09-18T12:21:46Z")
I have Windows 7 and love it. I went straight from XP to 7, so never got to see what Vista was like, but the more and more I use 7 the more I like it.
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### Author:  [@Adictd2b00st](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Adictd2b00st)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 12:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/7 "2009-09-18T12:22:51Z")
> [@mike125k](#):
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> I have Windows 7 and love it. I went straight from XP to 7, so never got to see what Vista was like, but the more and more I use 7 the more I like it.
what kind of processor and how much ram are you running?
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### Author:  [@SkunkApe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SkunkApe)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/8 "2009-09-18T12:26:15Z")
also running win7 64bit. no complaints at all. i love it.
i used vista ultimate for a few months, and it was quite an upgrade.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/9 "2009-09-18T12:26:51Z")
they have a windows 7 version that is designed for netbooks, so you should be able to make it work on most machines that run xp decently
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### Author:  [@Treads4Heads](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Treads4Heads)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/10 "2009-09-18T12:34:21Z")
Let me throw in, that you cannot download it earlier than the release of october 22nd, you just get it at a cheap price.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/11 "2009-09-18T12:38:23Z")
> [@Treads4Heads](#):
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> Let me throw in, that you cannot download it earlier than the release of october 22nd, you just get it at a cheap price.
that strange that it says just pay and download… how do people have this right now? trial version?
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### Author:  [@mike125k](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mike125k)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/12 "2009-09-18T12:43:13Z")
> [@Adictd2b00st](#):
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> what kind of processor and how much ram are you running?
Intel quad 2.4ghz, 4gb ram. Running 32bit Windows 7 Ultimate, its plenty fast. I have no complaints.
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### Author:  [@Treads4Heads](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Treads4Heads)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/13 "2009-09-18T12:53:50Z")
> [@mafdark](#):
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> that strange that it says just pay and download… how do people have this right now? trial version?
They released a beta version in the summer giving you up till March 2010. For this price its the real deal for eva, for eva eva? for eva eva
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### Author:  [@mickdad246](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mickdad246)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/14 "2009-09-18T12:54:04Z")
Jay, u can do an upgrade test, prior to buying it! Im definantly gonna get it, for only 30bucks, lol…
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### Author:  [@travisn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/travisn)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/15 "2009-09-18T13:08:46Z")
will this get rid of my “memory” issue? [http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68108](http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68108)
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### Author:  [@Tunerfreak](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tunerfreak)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/16 "2009-09-18T19:39:26Z")
i got windows 7 professional for free and it runs a little better than vista especially after the second service pack they put out which really slowed down everything for me
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### Author:  [@greenbull](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/greenbull)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/17 "2009-09-18T19:42:30Z")
Got my dad to buy a copy.
Its kinda sad that he is a student and I am not.
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### Author:  [@Saxon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Saxon)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/18 "2009-09-18T21:00:48Z")
might look into this, sick of internet being a pos with vista
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### Author:  [@tpgsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tpgsr)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/19 "2009-09-18T22:02:19Z")
It is great. I have been running it since the first beta release and have 0 major issues with it. I have had minor issues with some of my work programs like VPN and VNC, but there are already published workarounds.
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### Author:  [@greenbull](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/greenbull)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-29-99-for-students/73723/20 "2009-09-18T22:06:37Z")
Only issue i have had is the networking cutting out on my PC under heavy load (~3mb down). I just reset the adapter and its good again, but sometimes it keeps doing it over and over.
I don’t beleive it is router related as all other pc’s, laptops, gaming systems work still work when my pc doesn’t.
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