05-11-2004, 10:24 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../choosing2.asp
If you check your email a few times a week and do some light browsing get Home on the other hand if you are a power user or even a tech head get Pro. Edit: I would also reccomend Pro over Home in just about every situation. |
05-11-2004, 10:27 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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I can't imagine a situation where I would ever tell someone to choose Home over Pro. Pro is a lot more stable, has more security features (in terms of permissions management, etc.), and so on.
Also, the Recovery Console (very useful if things get fucked) doesn't work in XP Home, while it works in XP Pro. Go with Pro
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05-12-2004, 07:08 AM | #6 (permalink) |
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pro. i had home and upgraded them all to pro... it's much easier to network
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05-12-2004, 09:30 AM | #7 (permalink) |
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just one of the huge things that kills XP Home for me (never have been forced to use it fortunately) is the crippled networking. It is impossible as far as I know to join a domain when using home edition.
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05-12-2004, 08:50 PM | #8 (permalink) |
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I certainly haven't noticed any stability differences between the two however i havn't run either on any older or slower computer (lifes to short for slow computers), but with sp2 coming out alot of the networking (at least the integrated wireless tools) have been revampt, in both versions, and from the looks of it are "the cats ass".
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05-13-2004, 03:42 PM | #10 (permalink) |
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The home edition is a nightmare with networking. I work in tech support at my university, and its a damn pain everytime someone comes in with an XP home machine--it just doesnt like to cooperate.
Id drop the extra cash for pro.
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05-14-2004, 08:35 AM | #11 (permalink) |
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My 2 cents;
Anything with two letters or numbers in it sucks. I won't run anything except server 2003 and win 2000. Best MS OSes ever made. XP is still too pretty, in the way and crappy on support for me. I always had problems with external modems when I tried XP. Never in 2K or 2k3.
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05-14-2004, 04:28 PM | #14 (permalink) | |
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However, NT has two letters...and rules.
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