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I'm still running an X5 and was looking forward to 2003SE.
I never bothered with WM2003 as there just wasn't enough enhancement to be worth the $$. But 2003SE has many enhancements that a lot of folks have wanted since the X5 was introduced. Of course, Dell now doesn't intend to produce the SE upgrade for us.
For this reason I have no problems with someone working out a way to do it. I don't consider it theft because it isn't something that can be bought anyway. Yeah, that's simply 'justification' but too bad. If the manufacturer's won't support their customers then the customers can support themselves. Now, I wouldn't be so miffed if the manufacturer's, or MS, came out and said that 2003SE CANNOT be used on older ARM devices due to hardware issues. That would be understandable and an acceptable reason not to offer the upgrade, but no such reason has been given that I've seen.
Even with the above statement, though, I do plan to upgrade to a new device this year anyway. Maybe an HP4705? Maybe a Dell equivalent? Either way, I'm not upgrading for the OS, but for the hardware.
Chris...
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