nice to have you back Jim. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Jim Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Robert Munn [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 6:07 PM >> To: cf-community >> Subject: Win 7 Pro v. Home Premium >> >> >> Any reason to go for Pro for a system that isn't going to be joining a >> Windows domain? I don't trust the built-in encryption, and I don't >> need it to act as an RDS server, so what's left? > > I ended up having to get Pro on my personal system - after running the > preview for over a year I upgraded to Home Premium on all the machines (via > the inexpensive family pack). Then I discovered that Home Premium doesn't > support multiple CPUs (it supports any number of cores, but only one > physical CPU) - honestly didn't even notice for a while. But my system is a > dual Opteron and I was only engaging one CPU so I upgraded. > > If you you're running a dually (again physically multiple processors) it's > unfortunately a necessity. > > The only two other features I missed were: > > 1) Network backup. Only Pro+ can backup to a network location out > of the box. Of course nearly every other backup package on earth can do > this so it wasn't a huge deal - but it did irk. (The crappy machines with > little disk space are the ones that I most want to back up over the network. > My main machine would take forever to backup over the network and is too > important... it gets dedicated drives and offsite treatment.) > > 2) Windows XP Mode. When it came out this wasn't an option for me > anyway - my older CPUs lack hardware virtualization. That requirement has > been lifted so it'll work for me now. But it was kind of moot since Virtual > PC 2007 seems to work fine on Home Premium (the site says it won't, but mine > does fine... although I might have an old installer). > > Other than that Windows Home Premium has been working great for me on four > machines (family room, son's PC, daughter's laptop and my little > grease-covered POS in the garage). Aside from a loss of $90 and access to > my second CPU I've noticed no difference on my main PC either. > > > Jim Davis > > > >
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