Finally my very own laptop.

Prakash Nadar

Laptop[^] Only bad thing about this is that the speakers are not that good. btw, i have never used winxp home before while this laptop has xp home, can any one tell if it will be better to install xp prof for development purpose?

-Prakash

Weiye Chen

Grats, i am hoping to get one too. But its for gaming purposes. :-D

Paddy Boyd

XP Home has no IIS... which is a bit of a pain.

Prakash Nadar

Paddy Boyd wrote:

XP Home has no IIS... which is a bit of a pain.

Thanks, i dont need IIS for now, coz my development is for mobile devices.

-Prakash

S Senthil Kumar

My laptop came with XP Home Edition too. Didn't face any problems installing VC#, VC++ Express, Platform SDK and SQL Express.

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Lost User

You need XP Pro only if you want to login to a domain server (for example in a company).

ra ra ra ra

Weiye Chen wrote:

Grats, i am hoping to get one too. But its for gaming purposes.

I just got a spanky Dell Inspiron 9400, with an nvidia graphics card. Similiar spec to the dell XPS gaming laptop, but without the bells and whistles (has no flashy lights) and cost way less .... and to top that i got it from the outlet store, so saved yet more money! where else can you get top of the range laptop for €1300 (including irish vat @21% ) defo recommend it. :-D its a beast, but alas I have crippled the poor wee thing by putting vista beta 2 on it. man that is one unstable, incomplete pile of horse radish. grrr me and my drunkin ideas. :mad:

Stuart Dootson

The main issue I had with XP Home was debugging. If you develop as a Limited User (I always do), you can't debug - only Administrators can. With XP Pro, you can make any user a member of the Debugger Users group, so anyone can debug under XP Pro.