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tommyrot - Nov 02, 2006 11:17:40 am PST #9384 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So my 2 Gig of RAM for my MacBook showed up today. I'm gonna set up the MacBook so it can run OS X and XP at the same time. So I gotta decide if I want XP Home Edition or XP Pro. I found this:

Multi-processor support - Windows XP Pro supports up to two microprocessors, while Home Edition supports only one.

So for this purpose, is the Intel Core Duo considered to be two processors or one?

Kalshane - Nov 02, 2006 11:47:04 am PST #9385 of 10003

GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

For this purpose, I believe it counts as one. I just went out and looked and there are plenty of Intel Duo Core laptops and desktops shipping with XP Home for sale. Seems like you'd be good to go with Home.

tommyrot - Nov 02, 2006 11:50:00 am PST #9386 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Yeah, I was googling and noticed that. I also just read that XP SP2 added multi-core support to XP Home.

Kalshane - Nov 02, 2006 12:02:26 pm PST #9387 of 10003

Ah. That could explain it.

Funny thing, back in the day there was an article I read that gave you registry hacks to turn XP Home into XP Pro. Apparently Home still had all the code for Pro, it just had certain functions turned off.

Nowadays I would imagine that's probably not so much the case anymore.

esse - Nov 02, 2006 1:11:46 pm PST #9388 of 10003

S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

I gotta admit, from the little I've worked with home, I like XP better. Though they are much the same.

tommyrot - Nov 02, 2006 2:23:28 pm PST #9389 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

XP Professional is a superset of all the features of XP home. Mostly it's extra network functinality in Pro.

tommyrot - Nov 02, 2006 4:34:10 pm PST #9390 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

OK, I'm posting this from Firefox 2.0 running on XP on my MacBook. Just because I'm a big geek. I'm using Parallels desktop to run XP and OS X at the same time.

Did I mention that I'm a big geek?

tommyrot - Nov 03, 2006 4:31:42 am PST #9391 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

For MS Office, are you allowed to do two installations per copy (say, at home and at work) or just one now?

SuziQ - Nov 03, 2006 4:41:21 am PST #9392 of 10003

Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

When I tried to load it on my laptop (2nd install), I got told I could only use it 40 times without registering it, and when I tried registering it I got a message telling me that it was installed elsewhere and could only be used in one location.

If there is a workaround, I don't know it.

Jessica - Nov 03, 2006 4:51:05 am PST #9393 of 10003

If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

If you have the standard edition, you can only install it once, but the educational version can be installed on three different machines.

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