Win XP Media Edition

[carrollf]

Can anyone give me the lowdown on Windows Media Edition? Is it XP Pro with a better media player or is it better worse? Dell seem to be promoting it now on new PC's but I don't see why I would want it. Am I missing something?

 

[Osiris]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/default.mspx

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=465419

 

[Tyler1989]

Stay away from dells.

 

[Osiris]

Why?

 

[Tyler1989]

Reformating and re installing with them are a pain (so I heard).

 

[EricB]

I have discuss this question here a few time

http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52717

http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=66515&perpage=15&pagenumber=4

Reformating and re installing with them are a pain (so I heard).

Actually you don't need to activate a dell, when you reinstall windows with a dell XP cd, just like a gateway

 

[Amd2800]

Windows XP Media Centre is just XP wiv 20mb of files added

 

[EricB]

Windows XP Media Centre is just XP wiv 20mb of files added

More like 300mb added. it is 2 cds totalling 946mb

 

[Tyler1989]

True but how many of us use all of MCE's features.

 

[EricB]

True but how many of us use all of MCE's features.

if you had it you would use all of the features. you can't judge it when you don't have it. especially after you get the remote (20.00 on ebay)