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I'm gonna order me an i9300 pretty soon and was just curious about the differences between the Windows XP Home and Pro. Is it worth the extra $79?
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Home vs Pro
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It all depends on your needs. Really you can find apps to do most things home leaves out. Except for a few things like except duel CPUs.
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx
are two places to look for some more in def information.
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx
are two places to look for some more in def information.
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I think home does basically everything you would need, and, like tenchi said, you can get apps for stuff that might be left out, probably for free. I vote Home.
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Yeah, I will probably be dual booting with Gentoo anyways. Just gonna use XP to play games that Linux can't run.
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Good man!m3x1c4nj3w said:
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What do you mean by stable? Don't they use excaly the same file system, kernel, and well pretty much everything low down that determins the stability? I could be wrong though. As for the network thing this site seems to think you can with a wuick hack. http://vowe.net/archives/001639.html No idea how relieble it is because I have never tried it.
tenchi86 said:
Home would crash, or rather my av would crash home, frequently. Upgraded to pro and it started behaving. Probably not related, but hey.
Home used to be a bit 'weird' sometimes, i don't know how to describe it. Maybe it was just the psycological feeling of having a 'cut down' OS???
Theres other things as well, Pro has more advanced security, remote desktop, IIS, file system encryption, domain membership, roaming profiles and a few more I cant think of.
Does home support multiple processors?
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No it dosnt, and your right pro does have a lot of security features. I was just thinking most of those features can be gained from other apps which also uselly do it better. Though things like remote desktop are nice to have. So yeah really it all depends on your needs. If you uselly work on peoples pc or are a admin of a network or something pro is probaly a good choice. Also depends on if you like built in stuff or uselly like to pick your own programs.
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