Then I get to tell Apple zealots that you get what you pay for. Curiously enough, they then tend to spend the next 10 minutes trying to explain why that only counts when the Apple product is more expensive.
Cue the double standards...
Last December, when Microsoft dropped its Windows 7 Family Pack promotion just before Christmas, I thought it might return. I predicted Microsoft might do an about-face and reintroduce it.
I thought that might happen in a couple of months. It actually took close to a year for the Family Pack to come back — and will happen right after the back-to-school PC buying rush is over.
As Microsoft officials noted on September 1 on the Windows Experience blog, starting October 3 in the U.S., the Family Pack will be available via select retailers and online at the Microsoft Store for $149.99. (That’s the same price Microsoft charged for it last year.) Under terms of the deal, buyers will get three copies of Windows 7 Home Premium. Customers in Canada, UK, Germany, France, Australia and other markets will be able to buy the Windows 7 Family Pack on or after October 22, the one-year anniversary of the launch of Windows 7.
As my colleague Ed Bott notes, don’t be surprised to see Microsoft end the promotion when those seemingly inexhaustible “supplies run out,” like they did last year.
) and 2 of the "older" ones are a 1.5Ghz Celeron M and a 1.8Ghz Athlon 2200 and both are running Win 7 with no problems. The Celeron M has 1G of ram and an Intel 915GM graphics that shouldn't work with Win7 but it does and the Athlon had a Radeon 9250 which did install but caused problems so I put in a nVidia 7800GS AGP that works famously! 
