[Scgeeks] Re: Opinion wanted on new PC

[Twayne aka Pop]

Mike Easter wrote:
> Porpoise wrote:
>> "Mike Easter"

>
> Buy what kind of 'installation disk'?  A genuine MS 
> XP
> disk or a OEM restore disk?  If it was an OEM restore
> disk, were you able to do a clean install of XP from 
> the
> OEM disk or was it simply an image of XP + bloatware 
> as
> came with the machine?

OEM is forever locked to the computer it is installed 
on.  A pre-installed OEM might even be locked to the 
hardware set it came on.  So technically if the machine 
goes, the license goes too and it's often pretty hard 
to move it to another machine, especially the ones 
bastardized for specific hardware.

OEM cheaper but fully functional; retail costs more, 
but worth the legal transportability.

Pop`