Re: OS? Home, Media or Pro? (was Re: Mobius on an Intel Mac (and more questions))

["Todd Pafford" <calenlas@gmail.com>]

According to Apple's docs for boot camp, either XP Home or XP Pro will work.  Though I was unable to find a difinitive "Yes, you can use XP Home on an Intel Core Duo Mac" statement, I have to imagine there'd be a warning in there somewhere if you couldn't.

On 5/18/06, Sean Echevarria <sean.loop@creepingfog.com> wrote:

That is interesting.  I have an older HT enabled CPU and is reported as 2
CPUs in my XP sys info.  I heard (somewhere) that Dual Core with HT would
result in the OS reporting 4 CPUs.


At 2006.05.18 02:13 PM, jeff larson wrote:
> > For anyone getting a DuoCore or other multi-processor machine
> > (that would be all the smart people!) then they need pro -
> > home doesn't support multiple processors, afaik.
>
>My understanding is that Dual Cores are not considered to
>be "multiple processors" from the OS's perspective.  There are
>a lot of Dual Core machines being sold right now bundled
>with XP Home or Media Center.
>
>http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/cto_entdt_e510?c=us&c
>s=19&l=en&s=dhs
>
>I really doubt they would even offer this configuration
>if you could only use one core.