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Jul 8 2010 11:52am
So I bought a nice 2nd hand laptop off eebay, its a Toshiba Satellite 2.2GhZ Dual Core, 4GB Ram, 320GB HD, DvD, etc.

It comes with a clean HD, and a legit/legal Win 7 Home Premium License Key.


My question is this, I know XP had limits on RAM, I believe it was 3GB as a max for 32-bit XP Pro? Can someone verify this?


I love XP Pro, have used it for years with no real major issues. Vista blows goats in my opinion, I do NOT want to install that garbage. Win 7 does interest me, but I would rather find a Pro edition than use the Home edition that my key is for.




Any opinions/rants/raves are welcome here. Really just want the RAM issue addressed, I have 4Gigs, dont want to only be using 3 of them. Maybe XP Pro 64 bit?


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Jul 8 2010 11:54am
Quote (jlhromeo @ Jul 8 2010 01:52pm)
So I bought a nice 2nd hand laptop off eeebay, its a Toshiba Satellite 2.2GhZ Dual Core, 4GB Ram, 320GB HD, DvD, etc.

It comes with a clean HD, and a legit/legal Win 7 Home Premium License Key.


My question is this, I know XP had limits on RAM, I believe it was 3GB as a max for 32-bit XP Pro?  Can someone verify this?


I love XP Pro, have used it for years with no real major issues.  Vista blows goats in my opinion, I do NOT want to install that garbage.  Win 7 does interest me, but I would rather find a Pro edition than use the Home edition that my key is for.




Any opinions/rants/raves are welcome here.  Really just want the RAM issue addressed, I have 4Gigs, dont want to only be using 3 of them.  Maybe XP Pro 64 bit?


:cheers:


Use Windows 7 and you'll like it.

Using XP nowadays is like playing SEGA
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Jul 8 2010 11:59am
Xp 64 bit is suboptimal. If it comes with windows 7 use it. What specifically does Windows 7 Pro offer that you would use and is not in Home?

Xp 32 bit has a 3GB ram limit (although I think you can have more beyond that in virtual memory but thats obviously slower)
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Jul 8 2010 12:12pm
I have used neither Home nor Pro of Win7, but I can tell you XP pro > HP home by a LONG shot, so this was what I was basing it upon.

I did not want to get into 64bit OS if I didn't need to.

Looks like 7 is winning so far, but ISO more opinions of course!


P.S. I still play SEGA, Road Rash 4tw!
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Jul 8 2010 04:24pm
use windows 7, you won't regret it, I was a little bit unsure as well since I had xp and loved it and hated vista, but then I ended up just getting windows 7 to try it out. and it works like a charm, no problems whatsoever.
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Jul 8 2010 04:57pm
Quote (jlhromeo @ Jul 8 2010 02:12pm)
I have used neither Home nor Pro of Win7, but I can tell you XP pro > HP home by a LONG shot, so this was what I was basing it upon.

I did not want to get into 64bit OS if I didn't need to.

Looks like 7 is winning so far, but ISO more opinions of course!


P.S.  I still play SEGA, Road Rash 4tw!


Do you connect to a corporate domain at home? If so there is not a single other difference between home and pro, it's all in your head. They are the same OS with a couple of minor business-related things tossed in.

edit: Windows 7 Home Premium has just about everything you'll ever need. Anything more is bragging rights and nothing else.

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Jul 8 2010 05:06pm
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Do you connect to a corporate domain at home? If so there is not a single other difference between home and pro, it's all in your head. They are the same OS with a couple of minor business-related things tossed in.

edit: Windows 7 Home Premium has just about everything you'll ever need. Anything more is bragging rights and nothing else.


pro has more RDC functionality IIRC, i use it on my media/server PC



but if i could, i would be using W7 all the way, 64bit premium is a hard standard right now

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Jul 8 2010 05:08pm
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pro has more RDC functionality IIRC, i use it on my media/server PC



but if i could, i would be using W7 all the way, 64bit premium is a hard standard right now


That too, but it can be easily hacked into Home with a single .dll file swap. These are all things that most people never use. Just nerds like us.
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Jul 8 2010 05:09pm
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That too, but it can be easily hacked into Home with a single .dll file swap. These are all things that most people never use. Just nerds like us.


haha yeah, i personally like the RDC on windows 7 better anyways, its far smoother, faster, and better functionality of things like music over RDC and such
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Jul 8 2010 05:14pm
Just did a little research, and yeah Home Premium is about what any home user would need, which is what I will be mainly using this laptop for. Pro has XP Mode, which I would like but don't really think I will need, as well as a few other networking tools, and Ultimate has the Language switch on the fly as well as super Encryption for external drives and such.
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