What OS are you running?

I'm running OS X 10.4 and occasionally XP Pro in a virtual machine.

Will likely be adding a PC sometime, and it'll either be running XP Home or Media Center. Now, assuming that this is just going to be a regular machine, is there any advantage/disadvantage to getting the media center edition instead of home? I'm going to get whatever comes with a 'good buy' computer anyways, and thus a Pro edition isn't an option.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Merv Burger

No, you WANT Pro because Home is a heaping pile of useless shit.

Unless you don't want any flexibility in configuring your computer what-so-ever.

I don't know if Media Center is based on Home or Pro, but I'm leaning towards Home.

I'm well aware of Pro's advantages over home. The reason it's not an option when buying a new machine is because any oem I'd be buying from would not change the OS that comes with the bargain machine. Thanks for your input, but my query was only with regards to which OS of the two available would be better or if anything would really be different. It's a stop gap measure until I put a better, more costly OS on it.

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Guest, Cetra, thanks for your insight on MCE, as I've not used it. Sounds like home is the way to go at the same pricepoint. Neither is going to do anything I care about over the other, and if I'm using a mediocre OS (home), it might as well have a few less headaches than the other mediocre OS (MCE).

All depends on the sales though. ^^

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I don't pirate software anymore, hence, not going to do that. The XP Pro I'm using in virtual PC is not a legal copy, but I'll remove it when I get a real PC. I appreciate the thought though.

How ya doing, buddy?

Are you saying Terminal leaves much to be desired compared to Window's command line? If so, what?

Only issue I have with it is that when switching between DOS and Unix command lines I will often mix up commands. It's amazing how poorly ls works in Windows. You can try, and try, and try. ^^

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Originally Posted by www.sega.co.jp

Well I guess you could just save for Windows Vista when it comes out. Unless you really tweak Windows or use Windows in a businesslike environment, you're not missing out on too much by using Windows XP Home (plus why pay an extra $100 for an OS very similar to the one you already have?).

I do a great deal of networking, so it's going to run 2000 server, 2003, Vista etc. So testing an XP Pro environment is something I'm going to be doing. The Home vs. MCE issue is only because I'm going to get one for 'free', so it might as well be that which is most suitable in the immediate future.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by www.sega.co.jp

I'm curious if you're going to get MacOSX for the x86 platform. There's a lot of buzz about this, finally you'll be able to dual boot Windows (for all those programs greedy authors won't port) and OSX.
Me? I heven't used a Mac since I graduated from high school (June 2005), I did have a lot of fun getting root access on the school PCs though.

As of yet, a way to dual boot OSX and Windows on the x86 Macs hasn't been found.

Apple's use of EFI (Without BIOS compatibility/emulation) with 32bit chips means that you can't use the EFI compatible Windows (Those intended for Itanium), because they are 64bit only. The 32bit versions of Windows don't work because they require BIOS instead of EFI.

The really sad news is that it appears that Vista will not include EFI support until the release of 'Longhorn Server' in 2007. So what everyone thought would be the easy way of dual booting those two OSes is looking pretty grim. http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/06/03/10/0526237.shtml

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