Except dell dont do that. They don't have warehouses of stock, they build/ship on demand. They will only start preloading 7 on pcs as windows 7 goes on sale, or just a couple of days before hand. Any pcs they have preloaded with this key would be for testing purposes only, or for retail installations, they wont be sold to customers.
Yes they were, not as early as the W7 Lenovo key, but SLP keys for Vista where available before the Vista PC's hit the store shelves... but then again, why do some research before you post bulls**t again?
Uhm... search Google for "Vista cr**ked already" PARADOX released their cr**k a few weeks after official Vista launch, but the keys and SLIC they used were already spreaded like hell on the Chinese forums. Even here on mdl people (myself included) where using 'genuine' copies of Vista before it's official launch they were posted, on chinese forum vistafans.com, MSFN and here on mdl, the post with the collection of OEM:SLP keys came later ... ask anyone who registered before Juli 2009
You guys need to stop worrying about if the key gets black listed, who cares......just wait until Windows 7 ships and there will be plenty of other OEM keys that will definitely not be black listed....but most likely this one will not. Just use the re-arm trick to use windows for several months or until it ships.
yup! and the asus ultimate is the first one, second is dell in a pre activated NOPE release dvd and it became the mostly requested slic 2.0 for bios mod though keys are not brand specific