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[teiresias]

I'm just wondeing what people are using on their laptops. When I've been configuring my prospective laptop I've been choosing XP Pro for like $80 more, but after looking at the bullet-list of the differences between the two here I'm wondering if Pro is even worth it on the laptop.

I'm used to using Pro - I use it on my Desktop PC - but I never really use many of its features, such as remote desktop, restricting file accesses, encrypting data, etc. Of course, the laptop will often be used on a wireless network, but I'd imagine a good software firewall like zonealarm is just as good as the XP Pro features.

Basically, I'm wondering if I could save $80 by just getting XP Home, will I really be missing anything or exposing my system anymore by using Home instead?

 

[BigJonsson]

Only if your name is billy bob

 

[teiresias]

Do you write for Penny Arcade? I'm assuming you're saying Home is OK?

 

[MaverickX9]

I used XP Home on my laptop for two years and I never had any problems.

I was on a college network with it. Wireless, at times.

I upgraded to XP Pro and I really didn't notice any difference.




I doubt this helps you any, though.

 

[DarienA]

Win Xp Pro vs. Win XP Home

 

[fart]

my suggestion is to go on a murderous rampage

 

[gohepcat]

Are you planning on joining a network domain? If not. I can't see why anyone would be getting XP-pro.

 

[teiresias]

I'd imagine the university wireless network is simply a workgroup peer-to-peer network, as is my home network. I also read that FAT32 is the default file system for Home, but I'd imagine there's no problem using NTFS with it though, right?

I also read that Home doesn't have the administrative tools, which I really like in Pro with the disk manager and everything, but it's a laptop so that probably wouldn't get used as much, also is there any difference interface wise and how the GUI looks (in Pro I generally just set everything so it looks like Windows98 anyway, classic Start Menu, etc.).

 

[Gattsu25]

the lack of NTFS permissions and Domain support are nagging at me right now...but you can survive well with XP Home if those aren't that important to you

 

[Ecrofirt]

We have home on one of our PCs here.

I really haven't noticed any difference with it. My dad went and downloaded some of the administration tools that Home doesn't come default with.