Home or Professional edition??

[Cody]

I'm going to be a college student this fall, and I'm looking at notebooks to
use there. I can't decide whether to get the Home edition or Professional
edition. Does anyone have any suggestions? What are the benefits of each?
Also, I'm just curious, how do you log in Professional edition? Is it like
Home and click your name, or do you have to type your name and password in?

Thanks for any help!! :)

[rifleman]

In ,
Cody > cogitated deeply and wrote
> I'm going to be a college student this fall, and I'm looking at
> notebooks to use there. I can't decide whether to get the Home
> edition or Professional edition. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> What are the benefits of each?

If you are going to be joining a domain at college then there is only one
answer - Pro.


>Also, I'm just curious, how do you log
> in Professional edition? Is it like Home and click your name, or do
> you have to type your name and password in?

You can set (Pro at least) to do either.

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[Dan DeStefano]

you can use either version, though the professional version offers greater
security, recoverability and networking support (ability to join an nt/ad
domain, for example). however, if you are not going to take advantage of
these additional features, and prefer to always be logged onto your machine
as an administrator (which is not advisable), then save yourself the $100 or
so dollars and go with home. i, personally would never use the home version,
if for no other reason than the ability to set permissions on files/folders,
which you cant really do in home (or doing so is very clunky).

yes, pro does have the welcome screen, just like home, by default. the
difference is that with pro, you can disable this feature and use a
2000/nt-like logon interface.

i guess the bottom line is that if you consider yourself a power user, then
you want to go with the pro version.


hope this helps,

Dan DeStefano


"Cody" > wrote in message
...
> I'm going to be a college student this fall, and I'm looking at notebooks
to
> use there. I can't decide whether to get the Home edition or Professional
> edition. Does anyone have any suggestions? What are the benefits of each?
> Also, I'm just curious, how do you log in Professional edition? Is it like
> Home and click your name, or do you have to type your name and password
in?
>
> Thanks for any help!! :)
>
>

[Dr. Harvie Wahl-Banghor]

Some time, on or about: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 10:13:55 -0500, "Cody"
> was criminally insane in my professional opinion when
they claimed the following balderdash:

>I'm going to be a college student this fall, and I'm looking at notebooks to
>use there. I can't decide whether to get the Home edition or Professional
>edition. Does anyone have any suggestions? What are the benefits of each?
>Also, I'm just curious, how do you log in Professional edition? Is it like
>Home and click your name, or do you have to type your name and password in?
>
>Thanks for any help!! :)

XP Pro is like Home except on Steroids. Most of the functionality that
is included on Pro and not the Home edition will not be noticed by the
average user. I would say it would be like buying a V-8 when actually
a 4 cylinder would be more than adequate.

[Ken Blake]

In , Cody wrote:

> I'm going to be a college student this fall, and I'm looking at


Answered in another newsgroup. Please do not post the same
question separately to more than one newsgroup. If you must do
this, the correct way is by crossposting (but please, only to a
few related newsgroups). That stops the thread from becoming
fragmented.

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[Stef Power]

>-----Original Message-----
>you can use either version, though the professional
version offers greater...
My reply:
I took the advice of the computer techie where I bought
this and bought Pro.
However, it has been almost a year and I have yet to see
any advantages.

[rifleman]

In ,
Dr. Harvie Wahl-Banghor > cogitated deeply
and wrote
> Some time, on or about: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 10:13:55 -0500, "Cody"
> > was criminally insane in my professional opinion when
> they claimed the following balderdash:
>
>> I'm going to be a college student this fall, and I'm looking at
>> notebooks to use there. I can't decide whether to get the Home
>> edition or Professional edition. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>> What are the benefits of each? Also, I'm just curious, how do you
>> log in Professional edition? Is it like Home and click your name, or
>> do you have to type your name and password in?
>>
>> Thanks for any help!! :)
>
> XP Pro is like Home except on Steroids. Most of the functionality that
> is included on Pro and not the Home edition will not be noticed by the
> average user.

Unless your "average user" needs to join a domain server at some
time........


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[Ken Blake]

In , Stef Power wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> you can use either version, though the professional
> version offers greater...

> My reply:
> I took the advice of the computer techie where I bought
> this and bought Pro.
> However, it has been almost a year and I have yet to see
> any advantages.


Although it does sometimes happen, it's a relatively rare home
user who will see *any* advantages by using Professional instead
of Home.

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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

You really need to ask this question of the college you'll be
attending. In all likelihood, you'll need to be able to connect your
laptop to the school's network, which will probably be a domain. For
this, you'll need WinXP Pro to achieve full connectivity.

Bruce Chambers

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"Cody" > wrote in message
...
> I'm going to be a college student this fall, and I'm looking at
notebooks to
> use there. I can't decide whether to get the Home edition or
Professional
> edition. Does anyone have any suggestions? What are the benefits of
each?
> Also, I'm just curious, how do you log in Professional edition? Is
it like
> Home and click your name, or do you have to type your name and
password in?
>
> Thanks for any help!! :)
>
>

[Dan DeStefano]

well, one glaring advantage of the professional version is the ability to
set permissions to files and folders. then, as long as you regularly log on
as a restricted user account and not as administrator (unless doing
administrative tasks that the 'runas' command is too much of a pita to use),
then any viruses, vulnerabilities, etc. cannot damage your computer in the
manner intended since most execute themselves under the current user's
credentials. you need look no further than the "mitigating factors" heading
of almost every windows xp vulnerability to confirm this. to me, this, alone
is worth the extra money for pro, though there are other advantages.

Dan DeStefano


"Stef Power" > wrote in message
...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >you can use either version, though the professional
> version offers greater...
> My reply:
> I took the advice of the computer techie where I bought
> this and bought Pro.
> However, it has been almost a year and I have yet to see
> any advantages.

[Sharon F]

The same capabilities are in XP Home. Well, they are to an extent (no
group policy). They're just a little more hidden. If an administrator
logs on in Safe Mode, the properties of a file or folder uncovers the
"missing" Security tab.

I use Pro. It includes a backup program with the full features of ASR.
And it includes the web server, IIS. Very handy for web development.
That's two reasons that swayed this home user's decision from Home to
Pro.

Sharon F
MS MVP [Shell/User]


On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:53:10 -0400, "Dan DeStefano"
<ddestefanoATwinmarcompaniesDOTcom> wrote:

>well, one glaring advantage of the professional version is the ability to
>set permissions to files and folders. then, as long as you regularly log on
>as a restricted user account and not as administrator (unless doing
>administrative tasks that the 'runas' command is too much of a pita to use),
>then any viruses, vulnerabilities, etc. cannot damage your computer in the
>manner intended since most execute themselves under the current user's
>credentials. you need look no further than the "mitigating factors" heading
>of almost every windows xp vulnerability to confirm this. to me, this, alone
>is worth the extra money for pro, though there are other advantages.
>
>Dan DeStefano
>
>
>"Stef Power" > wrote in message
...
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >you can use either version, though the professional
>> version offers greater...
>> My reply:
>> I took the advice of the computer techie where I bought
>> this and bought Pro.
>> However, it has been almost a year and I have yet to see
>> any advantages.
>