On 9/18/07, Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amit Aronovitch wrote: > > Note that (some? most new ones?) of these laptops come with "Home" > > versions of windows Vista on a "recovery partition". > > This is bundled (cannot be bought without), and cannot be upgraded to > > a different license. > > > > By EULA, *you are not allowed* to use this (or any other "Home") > > version with virtualization technology, so you will have to buy > > "Ultimate", "Enterprise" or the likes seperately (and that's a > > considerable addition to the price tag). > > I'm no lawyer nor I play one on TV but I have some serious doubts as to > the legality of a deal to sell you hardware and bundled software which > specifically prohibit you from using one of the outstanding features of > the hardware you bought. > > It doesn't mean the EULA is not in force. But I'm guessing it means you > can probably sue the laptop reseller based on consumer protection laws > for a refund of that bundled software and might have a case. >
Looks like soon enough thats gonna be just about ANY laptop reseller that caters for the personal market (VT available on new mainstream chips, Vista replacing XP in new recovery partitions, OEM practice not allowing licensing options). Although this might be useful for promoting the struggle for refundability of the "MS tax", I don't have the resources to join the war just now. And since it looks like this limitation is here to stay http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2148526,00.asp , I'll probably opt for reusing the non-OEM XP Home from my old broken laptop, which would probably also give better performance. (and I wouldn't say otherwise on a public list even if I had other plans :-) ). > > BTW, how does Vista work virtualized? Do you run it without the 3d > > effects, or is there some way to virtualize 3d acceleration? > > You can para-virtualize 3d acceleration but at this time this is more > academic then useful, so yes, turning off the 3D (or any visual effects > for that matter) produces a great performance boost. > > Of course, I'd claim the same to be true also on native hardware which > IS 3D accelerated but that's a whole different point. > > Gilad > Thanks for the info. Amit ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
