XP Home - VS - Media Center Edition

Which would you choose, and why?

 

Depends on the manner in which you plan to use the machine. That information
would help.

 

That is the information that I'd like to know. I use XP Home and
Professional, but have no idea as to what the use of Media Edition is for.

 

Media Center Edition is XP Pro with a Tivo like application (Media Center)
added into it. Even if you never use the Media Center application, you still
get the benefits of XP Pro like remote desktop server; no reason not to get
Media Center over home that I can think of.

There are restrictions in Media Center Edition on joining domains, but those
are easily overcome (see other threads in this group) and if you had home
you wouldn't be able to join domains at all.

-Mike

 

Thanks Mike!

 

On Wed, 10 May 2006 23:38:21 -0500, "Charles B. Summers" <charles

I would choose MCE because it's more like Pro than home. For example,
you cannot access a Windows Home PC from any other PC using Remote
Desktop. You could not access it over the web.

You can do these things with MCE.

You are not giving up anything with MCE. And, you get one interface
into video recording if you should choose to do that. Check out
Beyond TV if you want to do that, I have heard that is good.

Journey

 

If there is no price difference, then by all means go for MCE.....


Stew