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Mud
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Hey, anyone know where a cheap place to get a copy of Windows Vista or newer? I've searched and the best I can find is OEM version for around $100. I want to install it via bootcamp on my Mac so I can play AO when away from home. My wife isn't a big fan of me spending more money for AO...so we will see ;)
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Dunno if you're associated with any institutions, (Work, university, College, government) but, often institutions offer their students/employees some fairly substantial discounts, I for example, got MS office 2007 through my GF's school for $10. mm, it might have been through my work, either way, it was only $10.

similar deals for OS's

edit* check with your IT guy at work if you have one... usually they know how to score deals as well.
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Maybe offtopic, but AO might run fine on your mac if you can get Wine working.

Download the source for wine-1.3.18, apply one quick patch (which fixes mouse input), then compile.
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Download Virtualbox from here
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

And boot W7 ISO file trough Virtualbox

W7 ISO download here
http://techpp.com/2009/11/11/download-w ... oad-links/
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