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Geek Culture / Windows XP Media Center Edition

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just ND
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Posted: 15th Jan 2006 15:11
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I should already know this, but can you use Media Center Edition like a normal PC with XP Home, or is it only a "media center"? I'm only thinking of getting it becuase the Dell which I'm looking at (5150c) comes with either XP Pro or Media Center.

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IanG
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Posted: 15th Jan 2006 17:11
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i think media centre is just xp pro with a different gui and a extra program


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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 15th Jan 2006 17:50
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Yes, Media Centre is a glorified XP - the Media part is an extra program - quite nice, but nothing thats extra to what is already out there.

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just ND
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Posted: 15th Jan 2006 22:10
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thanks

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Peter H
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Posted: 15th Jan 2006 22:29
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yeah, it's running on this machine...

really it's just a slightly improved XP... (windows xp media edition is based off of windows xp pro... or so i've heard) the "media center" part of it is just a program that can be easily ignored, by never starting it

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John Y
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Posted: 15th Jan 2006 23:02
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Unless Media Centre has the features of Windows XP Professional, then I wouldn't bother. There are loads of alternatives, my Creative X-Fi has it's own media software with remote.


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BluEarth Software
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Posted: 17th Jan 2006 22:53
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It's really olny Home, only it connects w/ your tv and Xbox 360, but you can do the same stuff w/ networking, some knowledge of windows, and hardware.

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