xp vs pro

[baron5]

Hello as you can see in there picture below my friend states that xp pro is alot better than xp home. I know it support more features that mainly servers would use but he believes there is a performance increase on pro and that home runs less games then xp pro. I have been trying to tell him they are identical besides the added feature here and there but i think everyone here needs to knock some sense into him.

I hope I'm right or I'll get a lot of **** handed to me

 

[Uberg]

To be honest he's probably just scared to find out he wasted money, he just wants to put himself above everyone else.

 

[Ops_Tech]

Home is a locked down version of Pro with some missing features. As far as games or performance go - I would ask him why he thinks this, its like saying a car goes faster because it has a CD player "Pro" rather then a cassette player "Home". Overall it's the same thing, just has some different functionality and options. Although I do prefer XP Pro I hate having locked down version of anything.

 

[Blind_Arrow]

apart from server and development purposes, i haven't found any difference in performance what so ever. though, you can say, PRO is slower (to some extents) as its running extra tasks that HOME isn't

 

[gurusan]

your friend has no idea what he's talking about.

 

[abadjay]

along with what everyone else says (especially gurusan) pro has the ability to use software RAID. only if your friend has a RAID-0 or RAID-5 implemented (which im sure he dosent) there is no performance upgrade.

 

[macdawg]

performance wise it is the same. pro gives you more networking options, and can support multiple cpu's (dual and quad cores are supported, but say a server with that has a dual socket 775 mobo and 2 socket 775 cpu's, you need pro for the 2 cpu's to be recognized)

 

[baron5]

yeah those are exactly what I've been telling him, just wanted him to hear from all of use because he won't listen to me. thanks guys

 

[KSoD]

Five editions of Windows XP compared

Easiest way to solve it. Right from the M$ site.

 

[SirCyber]

XP Pro and Home differ only in added programs. speed has nothing to do with it other than the possibility of slowing it down, but not to a noticeable extent. Right now I'm attempting to cut home down to a few k's of memory, but even as much as I've cut, there's not much of a difference in speed, just more space and no added programs working without my knowledge