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| 1423546 | 2016-07-23 20:01:00 | Hello to PCworld friends. I am new here and want to ask from you friends about the difference between windows 7 home basic vs windows 7 home premium. My bother asked me to build a desktop PC for him. Yesterday I purchased Core i3 Processor 8Gb Ram AND 320 GB hard drive. The graphics card is remain to buy. I need to install windows 7 OS to the PC. The soul purpose of the PC is to just play online games, chatting with friends on facebook etc and some times for editing pictures. I am confused with Home BASIC and home premium. What would you suggest me to buy OS for home based windows 7. |
adam43 (17488) | ||
| 1423547 | 2016-07-23 21:49:00 | The differences in the versions are here (en.wikipedia.org). Scroll down the page As you can see Home Basic doesnt support most of the features in Win7. And there are no retail versions of 64 bit of Home. Which you need, if you want to use 8 GB of ram And it looks like the max amount of ram you can install is 8 GB. So, even if you wanted to, you can't install more ram (higher than 8 GB) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1423548 | 2016-07-23 21:51:00 | I would suggest Windows 10 instead. :) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1423549 | 2016-07-24 04:57:00 | The differences in the versions are here (softlay.net). Scroll down the page As you can see Home Basic doesnt support most of the features in Win7. And there are no retail versions of 64 bit of Home. Which you need, if you want to use 8 GB of ram And it looks like the max amount of ram you can install is 8 GB. So, even if you wanted to, you can't install more ram (higher than 8 GB) Thanks for suggestion. I need windows7 64bit |
adam43 (17488) | ||
| 1423550 | 2016-07-24 04:58:00 | I would suggest Windows 10 instead. :) Hmm isn't windows 10 cost me high. |
adam43 (17488) | ||
| 1423551 | 2016-07-24 07:19:00 | No. It will cost nothing if you install Win10 before 29/7/2016. After that you will have to pay. There are many posts about this subject on this site if you care to look. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1423552 | 2016-07-24 07:37:00 | No. It will cost nothing if you install Win10 before 29/7/2016. After that you will have to pay. There are many posts about this subject on this site if you care to look. Seems like the OP is talking about an OS for a PC that has never had one before. In saying that, you could get the cheaper OS now and upgrade to Windows 10 before 29 July for free. It's worth noting though that Windows 7 is discontinued (except Professional) - it will be extremely difficult to find in stores now (and Home Basic/Starter were never available as a retail package). |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1423553 | 2016-07-24 09:37:00 | You could download a Windows 7 Pro 64bit iso file. You may have to buy a key from Microsoft if there isn't one with it. | mzee (3324) | ||
| 1423554 | 2016-07-24 23:28:00 | Thanks for suggestion. I need windows7 64bit then you have no choice. Your only option is 7pro ,as the others arnt available anymore. |
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