Pro VS. Home

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Skaray

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• Mar 5, 2006

• #1

Is there much of a difference for gaming?

 

tenchi86

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Oct 19, 2004

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Smoky Mountains, NC

• Mar 5, 2006

• #2

No, pro mainly differs in things like security for businesses and a few IT tools. Though it can support duel CPUs so in a case like that then yes.

 

Bios24

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Kansas City, MO

• Mar 5, 2006

• #3

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx

Honestly very few people need Pro for normal home use.

 

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ErikD

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• Mar 5, 2006

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Pro offers the ability to join a domain, and suport for up to two processors (or dual core processor). Those would be the main differences that might be of interest to the average buyer.

 

Alchemy1

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• Mar 5, 2006

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IIRC, home and pro support dual CORE processors, but only pro supports two physicaly seperate processors.