Ultimate vs. Home Prem.

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Heya, just did a search and couldn't really find any info that answers me question.

Essentially, what is the bonus of buying Vista Ultimate over Home Premium?

Currently have Home Prem. on my laptop and it works well, but wasn't sure if there's some must haves on Ultimate.

Thinking of upgrading soon, and don't want what happened when upgrading to XP happen this time - paying a lil' extra to basically have a blue loading bar ;)

Cheers
 
I've had the luxury of using Home Premium 32 but currently have Ultimate 64 installed. Main difference are some added extras like bit locker and windows dream scene. In all honesty not much else to be honest, not for the home user anyway. Have you actually tried checking the MS site might be worth a go.
 
There really is no major difference other than Dreamscene, never use it, bit locker, never use it and extra sound effects, do use. Not really worth the extra £100 or so unless you really need to see the word "Ultimate". Not sure if Home Premium is able to join a Domain, I guess not, like XP. That would only be important for work use really. You do not have access to group policy edits with HP.
 
the only decent thing it has over HP is remote desktop

i'd rather get business than ultimate, ultimate has loads of crap with it
 
Cheers, had a look at Microsoft and nothing really jumped out, but wanted to make sure there wasn't a small tiny overlooked feature that's great for gamers/general use..

However for the cost it doesn't really sound that much better and in all fairness don't really use domains on XP pro so don't think I'd miss it anyway.

And that Dreamscene thing just sounds like a nice gimmick, that kinda hinders performance even more ;)
 
Table of differences link

Only real concern I had was max supported memory, but by the time I need more than 16GB Vista will be old hat. And I'm not likely to need two processor support.

I was considering Ultimate for partition imaging ability, but decided I could save a packet and get a stand alone utility for less than Ultimate price.
 
I use remote desktop on HP. I use it to admin my home server (Windows Home Server). Bitlocker requires the hardware, and Ultimate can also join Domains, not really much point over the huge price difference.
 
Bane said:
Table of differences link

Only real concern I had was max supported memory, but by the time I need more than 16GB Vista will be old hat. And I'm not likely to need two processor support.

I was considering Ultimate for partition imaging ability, but decided I could save a packet and get a stand alone utility for less than Ultimate price.
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Thanks for that, absolutely perfect - can't see any major reason why to go Ultimate over Home Premium, for the price at least.

Guess that's sorted, cheers everyone :)
 
PhillyDee said:
I use remote desktop on HP. I use it to admin my home server (Windows Home Server). Bitlocker requires the hardware, and Ultimate can also join Domains, not really much point over the huge price difference.
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without modification, you can't use HP as a RD server though..

any os can have a remote client
 
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