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| Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition FULL VERSION with SP2 |
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List Price: $199.00
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Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
Color: 1-user
EAN: 0805529831414
Feature: Operating system features -
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Microsoft Software
Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
Model: N09-00984
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: Windows 95
Publisher: Microsoft Software
Release Date: 2004-09-28
Studio: Microsoft Software
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Operating system features -
Create and enjoy home movies with the built-in Video support
Share your video project with the easy E-mail attachment & mass-mailing features
Go Mobile with the ability to Communicate anytime, anywhere
Discover and Download online music, with the easy-to-use Internet features
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Editorial Reviews:
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Windows XP Home makes it easy to use your Computer for those Personal projects you enjoy. Service Packs round up the bug fixes and product updates you need for operating more smoothly. This Service Pack bridges the gaps between the original software and user requests more fully, responding to customer wishes -- and making XP even better. Share your home computing resources with simple-to-use Networking tools Service Pack features - Security Center offers a central control system for your Windows XP security -- work with the firewalls, auto updates and antivirus tools Great news for people sick of pop-up ads - The built-in pop-up blocker controls them, with a new submenu and status bar icons New Add-Ons manager gives you instant access to all the Browser Helper Objects and extensions, enabling and disabling them easily Firewall now has its own control panel Enhancements to the Windows Update service make installing new updates easy Wireless Networking - Multiple wireless connections to choose from
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Skroo'd my HDD, missing features XP had.
Comment: I used Vista Home for about 3 months on a new PC. Each piece of hardware I purchased for this PC mentioned it was 'vista compatible', so they're out of excuses for the complete failure to adequately 'operate' my 'system'.
At the near 3 month mark, I had a 'Blue screen of Death' while playing 'The Witcher' on Steam. After this BSOD, the hard drive was not only unable to boot, it froze my system before I was even able to enter CMOS. I had to unplug the drive to get to CMOS and change boot priority to CD-ROM. I booted to the vista CD and tried to format and reinstall. When selecting the Vista-Skroot drive in the installer, **THE INSTALLER BSOD'D!!**. Incredible. I've been building windows PCs since I was in my early teens, and I've never seen that before.
Vista BSODs were somewhat common in all games I played on this system... I'd have one perhaps once every other play session. I'd call it 1 BSOD per 5 hours of game play. This happened with an array of different games by different developers (Dawn of War, Rainbow six, Ghost Recon, Witcher, Team Fortress 2, several others). A subset of these games I had owned and played on XP, and I **DID NOT** have this frequent BSOD problem. Perhaps it was my particular choice of 'Vista Approved' Hardware... Not sure.
At this point I don't care. I recommend holding out on XP until Windows 7 (aka Blackcomb aka Vienna) is released.
I also want to mention that Vista Home is missing some features I enjoyed that XP. I have an linux fileserver with an NFS share. On Vista Home, I am deliberately prevented from mounting this share without upgrading to a more expensive version. I'm sure this is true for a handful of features.
Please avoid this buggy, over-hyped windows release.
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Summary: It's Windows
Comment: It's XP. It was fairly easy to install but didn't format more than one sector. The screensaver works intermittently. That being said it runs much faster than Vista and makes a good little second computer OS.
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Summary: didn't kill my MBP : )
Comment: I purchased this for my MacBook Pro. using bootcamp it worked fine; although the install failed the first time, but i figured since it was windows, working on the first try was too much to expect. I was going to give it only three stars because I am disappointed in just how bare bones it is right out of the box, but since it hasn't crashed my mac yet and its not Vista, i give it four stars
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Summary: Great for putting Windows on an Intel Mac
Comment: I bought this so that I could run windows on my Macbook. One of the big advantages over Vista is that it uses much less HD space which for me was quite important (given it's a laptop). It runs well using bootcamp and I've yet to have any problems with it.
I recommend buying this if you want to run Windows on your Mac, which for some things is essential.
The only reason I've rated it 4 stars is because I don't actually like Windows as an OS particularly but for what I needed it for it's doing its job well.
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Summary: XP on a MAC
Comment: I bought Widows XP to run on a MAC under Parallels. This full version works perfect. It seems to run faster on the MAC than my old PC. Parallels requires a full XP version, that is why this one costs more. It is worth it if you want to run Windows software on a MAC. I am happy with the way this works. You can actually 'cut and paste' between the two operating systems in Coherence mode.
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