'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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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.
I gotta admit, from the little I've worked with home, I like XP better. Though they are much the same.
XP Professional is a superset of all the features of XP home. Mostly it's extra network functinality in Pro.
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?
For MS Office, are you allowed to do two installations per copy (say, at home and at work) or just one now?
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.
If you have the standard edition, you can only install it once, but the educational version can be installed on three different machines.
Did I mention that I'm a big geek?
I dunno, don't you need some Linux on that laptop too?
I dunno, don't you need some Linux on that laptop too?
Heh. Yeah, actually I could easily do that. I could check out this 'Ubuntu' that all the kids are into these days. Or go all retro and install Slackware.
Come to think of it, my other Intel machine (HP) is kinda' flakey. I have Fedora on that but I never use it. So maybe I should stick Linux on the MacBook.
Fedora 6 is probably the best for MacBook one of the objectives of Fedora 6 was to improve support for Intel Macs.