Swift Strider wrote:The amount of technical gibberish you guys are spewing is hurting my brain. I was actually offering to buy to the whole thing (because that way the budget wouldn't be tight and you could spend the few extra hundred dollars) but I can just by the OS if you want.
Black Knight wrote:I'll be happy putting $50 forward if it helps to future proof this a little
Jon LH Hart wrote:We also need M/KB and that build doesn't have a disc drive which isn't absolutely a necessity, but is Swift buying the normal version of Windows 10 on the USB or an OEM disc for cheaper? The OEM disc is $35 cheaper, but we'll need a disc drive to install it. I could pull one of mine out of my pc just to install the OS I suppose. But if Sarge wants a disc drive it's like $20.
Mzoga wrote:Jon LH Hart wrote:We also need M/KB and that build doesn't have a disc drive which isn't absolutely a necessity, but is Swift buying the normal version of Windows 10 on the USB or an OEM disc for cheaper? The OEM disc is $35 cheaper, but we'll need a disc drive to install it. I could pull one of mine out of my pc just to install the OS I suppose. But if Sarge wants a disc drive it's like $20.
You can't just buy the OEM disc for the key, and download the windows 10 installer onto a USB stick? (I don't know if getting w7 and doing the upgrade the same way is cheaper, but I guess we're running into time constraints with that plan)
Thee MC wrote:You can either buy and download the OS and put it on a USB stick yourself, or you can buy the OS already on a USB stick.
EDITMzoga wrote:Jon LH Hart wrote:We also need M/KB and that build doesn't have a disc drive which isn't absolutely a necessity, but is Swift buying the normal version of Windows 10 on the USB or an OEM disc for cheaper? The OEM disc is $35 cheaper, but we'll need a disc drive to install it. I could pull one of mine out of my pc just to install the OS I suppose. But if Sarge wants a disc drive it's like $20.
You can't just buy the OEM disc for the key, and download the windows 10 installer onto a USB stick? (I don't know if getting w7 and doing the upgrade the same way is cheaper, but I guess we're running into time constraints with that plan)
I see now, missed the part where the disc was $35 cheaper. Shit, definitely just scrub the CPU cooler, throw a drive in there and use that. I'm not sure how easy it is to clone the OEM iso onto a USB. I know it's easy to create the media once the OS is installed... but not sure if it is an option if you put the CD into a system that already has the OS installed.
Mzoga wrote:I meant like using the media creation tool here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/softwar ... /windows10
If you purchase a Win7 or newer key -- that's how I've done 6/7 of my installs at home (I have a lot of machines) -- unless you mean you can't run the media create tool on something non-win10.
Swift Strider wrote:You can buy me a new computer if you want Swift.The amount of technical gibberish you guys are spewing is hurting my brain. I was actually offering to buy to the whole thing (because that way the budget wouldn't be tight and you could spend the few extra hundred dollars) but I can just by the OS if you want.