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Microsoft has absolutely no interest in you or the amount of RAM you chose to fit into your system - They supply a suitable operating system to run on and allow you to access all of your RAM, (except that used as addressing space of course)
Saying you do not want to pay for the option in the Range of available operating systems, or more precisely, that you should be treated as a special case and get the more expensive option for the price of a lower one says more about you than Microsoft, Microsoft will not get any money if you do buy the correct OS for your system, they sold their last copy of Windows 7 a long time ago and the wholesaler has long since paid for it.
BTW you already have a legit copy of Ultimate that will meet your needs, and before you say that it's an upgrade only copy so it will not install please check the link I provided you with the instructions to install your copy - It was in the first post I made in this thread a procedure that has been used many times by many people who did not want to follow a full upgrade path to get the OS they had purchased to install - This method was known about by microsoft and the Beta testers of Windows 7 and was never blocked so is basically sanctioned especially even more so now on an out of Mainline support OS
I also know quite a few technicians who use the apple hardware - the vast majority however run Windows on the Apple hardware as they prefer the choice of operating system versions available
Last edited by Barman58; 03 Dec 2017 at 08:26.