EricB said:you are wrong.
1st thing it's need to properly configure a MS certified MCE tuner. that alone takes more than 60mb
2.it has a ton of extra's. there are too many to name
3. it doesn't have a different theme. it is xp pro with it's regular theme. media center is an addition to windows. if you don't enable it, it will never show up
4 where did you get that info ?
5. it comes with windows media enhancements (that alone cover 76mb) which is windows audio convertor, windows party mode, windows dancer and the label maker.
6.you can access everything through your TV and home stereo through the remote.
regular windows take up 1.5 gigs space on a fresh install. MCE is over double that
Tyler1989 said:Though I haven't used it personally I still say you can't use all the features it offers it's just to much. As for making the switch I may but I don't have a Media Center PC per say so I cannot connect the PC to the TV without special adapters. It has a cool theme but that is no reason to switfh OS's and I also heard the Final Update Rollup was released not to long ago. Doesn't that make XP Pro more secure?
If not I may make the switch. But no adapters = no remote = no real purpose for it.
Amd2800 said:You dont need a Media Centre pc ..i run it on a Intel p2 450mhz wiv 192mb ram and its fine
Amd2800 said:i own MCE and used it ...and its has different themes ....you dont need to activate the themes because Royale Themes Come up on First Boot ...and XP mCE takes 2GB HJDD Space
And it has the media Centre wiv is around 40mb as i have ripped it from MCE for Win XP and there aint anything else different in MCE to XP apart from the Style and Media Centre Application
EricB said:from rereading this, it look like you have mce 2004. it would work on a lower processor plus it had different themes. but you could not configure 2004 to work with MCE aftermarket tuners linke an nvtv. they would only work on a few selected tuners on mostly prebuilt machine.
MCE 2004 was on 1 disc. Mce 2005 was on 2 discs. with about 27 minutes left during install it will ask for disc 2, then run that for a few minutes, then it will ask for the original cd