I finally take the Vista Plunge

Given recent events with my son and the fact that Vista SP1 will soon be available for the masses I decided to purchase a copy of Vista.  I've been holding off for several different reasons:

• I switched to a Mac last year
• Complaints from Users of Vista
• We weren't upgrading in the office
• The Cost

But since I now have 3 family members using Vista (my sons & my mother-in-law) and they all come to me for computer help I figured I better get the dang thing and really get familiar with it.  This is not to say I haven't played around with it already; I had the early public beta RC that I ran with VirtualPC 07' in the office but that expired and I just haven't had the time.

Okay, so where did I get it and what was the cost?  I ended up buying it from newegg.com for $169.00.  I checked everywhere and compared all discounts like our EPP available thru work to possibly buying a cheap computer that has it pre-installed. None came close to what I got from newegg.  The only caveat is it's an OEM Vista Ultimate version which means no refunds (unless the media is defective) and it can only be installed on a single computer with no transfers.  Since I'm going to run this on my MacBook Pro using Parallels I figured it was worth a shot.  I'll let you know if I run into any problems.