Downside to OEM....

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I was thinking of buying an OEM version of XP, and I want to know what is the downside to buying an OEM, besides the no fancy box, and no manual. I heard that you have to call in order to activate it. Now do you have to call every time you reformat for example to reinstall windows? I also heard that you can only use it once? If that is true forget that. I reformat 1-3 times a year.
 
No box, no manual, I don't think you have to call, I didn't have to for my OEM WinXP MCE. You can use it as many times as you want, just after like 5 or so activations you have to call MS and tell them you are reinstalling again and they'll set it to 5 more activations. It costs $0 to do that, and only takes like 10 minutes.
 
No downside to OEM. It's almost always cheaper to buy stuff this way. Whether it's software or hardware it's pretty much the same deal. No box/manual but less money. OEM XP is good stuff; they pretty much just roll over for ya like The General said from what I've heard.
 
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