Is Pro/Ultimate worth the extra??

toon_mad · 20 Oct 2009 at 22:25

Hi, sorry if this has already been posted, im going to buy windows 7 soon, the price of home is considerably cheaper then pro or ultimate.

what massive difference or features are missing from home?

Is pro/ultimate worth the extra £££? :confused:

Cheers

Broken Hope · 20 Oct 2009 at 22:30

As a home user you're not missing anything if you don't buy pro/ultimate.

toon_mad · 20 Oct 2009 at 22:31

can you get 64bit in home version?

Daegan · 20 Oct 2009 at 22:33

toon_mad said:
can you get 64bit in home version?

Yes, and you get disks for both if you order a retail version.

toon_mad · 20 Oct 2009 at 22:35

excellent, might just go with home then, as a gamer/developer/photoshopper i hope im not missing out too much!

cheers

theheyes · 20 Oct 2009 at 22:40

With no disrespect to the OP, this has been done to death. Are we going to get bombed with "Home or Pro?" and "32 or 64 bit?" threads for the next few weeks?

Broken Hope · 20 Oct 2009 at 22:41

toon_mad said:
excellent, might just go with home then, as a gamer/developer/photoshopper i hope im not missing out too much!

cheers

Pro and ultimate are all business features, stuff like being able to join a domain, virtualised XP (not to be confused with XP compatibility mode which Home still has), Bitlocker and such. Nothing that someone running a home PC will miss.

toon_mad · 20 Oct 2009 at 22:43

ok thanks everyone with useful help.

mrk · 21 Oct 2009 at 00:13

Remote desktop host is not strictly a business feature and those buying Pro inc myself will be doing so just for that feature.

Home does not have RDP hosting, only client connection.

Sin_Chase · 21 Oct 2009 at 00:23

mrk said:
Remote desktop host is not strictly a business feature and those buying Pro inc myself will be doing so just for that feature.

Home does not have RDP hosting, only client connection.

Ouch!

I would be using Pro anyway, for the small extra it's worth future proofing for anything that might not make the Home release.

mrk · 21 Oct 2009 at 00:31

It's not a huge deal as someone will mod terminal services to allow RDP hosting, right now the only patch is to allow concurrent connections for Professional RTM.

But I'd rather have an unhacked copy on my own machine because every time MS release an SP termserv needs updating

chaparral · 21 Oct 2009 at 01:23

Taken from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions

chaparral · 21 Oct 2009 at 01:28

I only just noticed the W7 home P 16GB memory limit

toon_mad · 21 Oct 2009 at 12:58

you wont need 16gb for a long time i reckon, no matter what microsoft say

Fire Wizard · 21 Oct 2009 at 13:01

I'm afraid I am going to close this thread. We have had plenty of these types of threads in the Windows & Other Software section already. Please do a search in future.