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New laptop Which Vesion of Windows XP
So any suggestions i am buying anew Dell 9300 Laptop
My choices are Windows XP home Windows XP Media Windows XP Pro Is Pro that much better? |
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Re: New laptop Which Vesion of Windows XP
If the cost difference is not that much I'd get Pro or MCE (Media)
I've used XP home for a long time, I just put together a PC and got XP pro becasue it was only 10.00 more than XP home. I think the drive support is better in XP pro. With XP home to run 2 monitors I had to get a dual-output video card, I think in PRO you can just add a video card like you could in win98. MCE (Media Center Edition) has support for DVR, TV-Tuner cards and you can use a remote control to run your pc. |
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Re: New laptop Which Vesion of Windows XP
Full list of differences here . No difference in using multiple monitors/video cards. If you won't use it in a business network (domain) environment, you're very unlikely to care about the differences.
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Re: New laptop Which Vesion of Windows XP
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MCE (Media Center Edition) has support for DVR, TV-Tuner cards and you can use a remote control to run your pc. [/ QUOTE ] Wow, that can be done in windows 2000 too... |
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Re: New laptop Which Vesion of Windows XP
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Re: New laptop Which Vesion of Windows XP
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[ QUOTE ] MCE (Media Center Edition) has support for DVR, TV-Tuner cards and you can use a remote control to run your pc. [/ QUOTE ] Wow, that can be done in windows 2000 too... [/ QUOTE ] yeah I think the MCE revision is just a marketing stratagy to sell what is already available. |
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Re: New laptop Which Vesion of Windows XP
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Full list of differences here . No difference in using multiple monitors/video cards. If you won't use it in a business network (domain) environment, you're very unlikely to care about the differences. [/ QUOTE ] ok- if somebody gets XP home and has difficulty getting multiple monitors / video cards to work I promise I won't say "I told you so" but seriously multiple monitor support was a last minute addition to XP home when it was first released. MS did not think any home users would have a requirement for such a thing then they found out differently. The Multi-Monitor support in XP home blows. If you happen to get the right combination of video cards it fine but for instance the two video cards I had in my computer running win98 were not compatible with XP home - I had to get a dual card (about 100.00 us) |
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"but seriously multiple monitor support was a last minute addition to XP home when it was first released."
eh, 2000 can do that [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] |
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Re: New laptop Which Vesion of Windows XP
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[ QUOTE ] Full list of differences here . No difference in using multiple monitors/video cards. If you won't use it in a business network (domain) environment, you're very unlikely to care about the differences. [/ QUOTE ] ok- if somebody gets XP home and has difficulty getting multiple monitors / video cards to work I promise I won't say "I told you so" but seriously multiple monitor support was a last minute addition to XP home when it was first released. MS did not think any home users would have a requirement for such a thing then they found out differently. The Multi-Monitor support in XP home blows. If you happen to get the right combination of video cards it fine but for instance the two video cards I had in my computer running win98 were not compatible with XP home - I had to get a dual card (about 100.00 us) [/ QUOTE ] It sounds like you might be extrapolating from a rather small sample size here. Did you have a different experience running XP Pro on the same kit? |
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Re: New laptop Which Vesion of Windows XP
I actually just got XP Pro last week running on my primary PC. Admittedly I can not say from personal experience that DM support will not work on many PCs. I will say that when I got XP home a few years ago and upgraded my PC from 98 the dual monitor wasn’t happening.
I read all the PC tech help forums I could and put together the facts I have stated above. It could be a conspiracy to get people to get the more expensive OS but I doubt it. The article you posted about the differences is very vague on the real tech concerns, it was written for a very non-tech user. As far as dual monitor support, XP-Pro supports up to 10 monitors (I could find the specs but this is again from memory) XP home supports 3 maximum I believe. They are different operating systems as far as support for hardware is concerned IMO. |
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