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XP Pro vs Home for mac user?
friend is a mac user. wants to use boot camp for vegas
anyone notice diffs btw XP Pro & Home?
couldn’t see anything in the archives.
MS says “Windows XP Professional offers excellent performance
that scales with additional memory and faster processing power.”thanks
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I dont have an answer but my friend is trying to learn about doing this route as well.
He has a intel dual core macbook pro , wants to use Vegas and its family members.There are several dual boot windows wrappers that are available.
Aside from bootcamp do you know or tried others that work well ?
the wrapper is the last part we need to try this.I suspect XP Pro is the way to go in general.
I would be interested in your findings and test results.
We intend to hammer it hard to see how she handles.Zipedit
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heard elsewhere that makes no difference, so will be getting xp home.
🙂
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Is home an option with bootcamp? I thought boot camp required XP Pro service pack 2.
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There are NOT any major differences in performance between XP Pro and Home. XP Pro adds Remote Desktop, which you don’t need. XP Home only supports one processor, XP Pro supports two. Pro supports dynamic disks, which doesn’t effect you. There’s lots of other things, mostly networking related, but for your application, XP Home should be fine. I don’t know if the multiprocessor support would be an issue for you if you are using boot camp, because it would be a shame if you could only use one processor from Windows and two from OSX.
Tim
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I believer XP Pro is necessary to use all four cores in a Mac Pro, if a Mac Pro is the kind of Mac you are working with.
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XP home supports only one processor, but it can be a multicore
processor. Supposed to support “one socket” so the Intel Quad
that’s two dual-core chips in one package theoretically should work with “home”,
but not sure. The differences are very small and mostly have to
do with Pro supporting a networking model that one would NOT use
unless forced to (IOW only in big businesses). The remote screen
feature is such that a machine with XP Home can be the “master”
and remotely access a Pro system (have the Pro system’s screen on
yours) but can’t be the “subject” being invaded (some may think
this an advantage).
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