Decision: XP Home or Professional ?! (1 Viewer)

[jcee]

Going to select Home as it is a little cheaper.
What are the tradeoffs?!

Are there strong reasons choosing Professional over Home?!

Read alot of threads here, but no finall answer..

I know that the MCE Remote and Keyboard will not work at all. Is this right? Will this cause problems for future equipment? Maybe special cards controller that only come with MCE drivers???

 

[Efros]

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

Gives comparison Home v Pro

 

[smnnekho]

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I know that the MCE Remote and Keyboard will not work at all. Is this right?

at least the MCe remote will work as well with XP Pro as also with XP Home. no idea for the keyboard, but i saw discussions bout that in the forum

 

[infinite.loop]

buy WinXP Prof. its worth every cent

 

[no_Legend]

I'm using Pro only is it every cent more worth.

But with the keyboard in a german forum is an other was found a nother problem.

It seems that some recievers have problem to handel the Remote Keyboard. If i remember correcly them modell 1040m have problems with the keyboard.

 

[Brocklander]

Over here the OEM MCE is cheaper than OEM Professional... Why not just get MCE, it's just Professional and more for cheaper?

 

[mPod]

Con: MCE is not a full Professional, it lacks of some things, mainly networking stuff, e.g. you cannot save passwords for more than one peer. There are also other things, tho. IIRC the forums know it all.

Pro: MCE has a bunch of bugfixed media DLLs.

Sum: XP Pro is the best choice, with some DLLs copied over from MCE.

 

[Brocklander]

Ah okay, I just always believed it was built on Pro. Sorry

 

[mPod]

Ah okay, I just always believed it was built on Pro. Sorry

It's somewhat between Home and Pro. More Pro than Home, tho. But not a full Pro. :roll:

 

[Efros]

I would go for Pro personally, have had bad experiences trying to network Home machines.