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| quote: | Originally posted by ShadoWolf
It's not very expensive at all. |
WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION: £163.32
WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL EDITION: £259.99
WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION UPGRADE: £89.99
WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL UPGRADE: £158.59
The only version I think is reasonably priced in that list it Home Edition Upgrade.
Prices were looked up at www.pcworld.co.uk, oh and include vat. Two reasons behind this, 1) I couldn’t be bothered to look much harder, so I will except that on the balance of probability you will be able to find it cheaper, and 2) The average citizen who isn’t that computer savvy won’t bother to look much harder than PC World either.
Then we have the costs of things such as word processing…
OFFICE XP STANDARD, STUDENT LICENCE: £119.99
Over £100 for a STUDENT licence. LMAO. Classic.
| quote: | Originally posted by starglider
"Maintaining" as in "not getting worms/viruses/spyware" is not a lot to ask. |
That’s a fair enough comment.
| quote: | Originally posted by DigitalMP
so you're online all day, but you could careless about internet security, and the tasks your must perform to address that matters?
do you leave your front door unlocked on regular basis? just checking, because i assume you could use a copy of Zone Alarm to guard it for you. |
I have Norton Personal Firewall, not because I’m paranoid about protecting the data on my computer, anything that important is stored on removable media, but just because I don’t want the thing to light up like a Christmas tree as a target when some scriptkiddie decided to do a portscan. Realistically, you can take as many safety measures as possible, but if someone has the ability and is determined enough, nothing short of making sure it’s not connected directly to, or part of a network connected to the internet is going to stop them. Zone alarm…hmm not thanks.
Anyway, just to go back to your original comment about maintenance briefly, I said what I said, really, because of my experiences with Windows 98. I’d class myself as fairly up on computer matters, but 98...no matter how much messing around, tinkering and maintenance, 98 eventually turns belly up. The only solution I have discovered is using 98Lite to get rid of the IE integrations, but then I might as well be using 95, because all it does is swap the kernel elements between the two, but then again, you guessed it, 98Lite Costs MORE money once again. I haven’t used XP that long so I don’t know ho well this will stand up over time. I guess I shall see…
At the end of the day I’m only really comfortable with a Microsoft product when the first thing I see after a boot is C:\> 
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