Yeah, Windows activation is actually pretty laid-back these days, though as your friendly neighborhood Microsoft licensing manager, I feel I ought to point out that OEM and System Builder licenses are not transferrable across PCs -- a PC being defined as the motherboard. Also, technically speaking, OEM and SB licenses for Windows 7 and 8.1 (but not Windows 8) are only to be used on a computer you're going to sell to someone else.
Not that Microsoft particularly enforces these rules, but... there you go. And now you know why activation is required if you swap motherboards.
As a side note, a great SSD is the Crucial MX100. They're pretty cheap and blindingly fast. I have a pair of these bad boys (512Gb) in a RAID mirror and they do terrifying things to random reads and writes.
Not that Microsoft particularly enforces these rules, but... there you go. And now you know why activation is required if you swap motherboards.
As a side note, a great SSD is the Crucial MX100. They're pretty cheap and blindingly fast. I have a pair of these bad boys (512Gb) in a RAID mirror and they do terrifying things to random reads and writes.
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