XP Home or XP Professional for audio tasks ?

mo's taverne · Post by **mo's taverne** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:58 pm

After getting hard attacked by some Trojan Virus, i need to setup my whole system from scratch. I've been running Win XP Home for some years on my Laptop without any problems, but i'm evaluating the pro and con's of both systems at the moment. As far as i know, XP Pro has better networking and security options but is there any difference in general performance (DAW wise) ? I'm using my laptop mainly for audio tasks and partly for internet and uni work. So, any of you have an adwise or have experienced both systems ?

Matt du Jardin · Post by **Matt du Jardin** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:14 pm

No difference at all. It's still the same O/S but with a few registry keys to enable the network features. Stay clear of Vista though, that cripples your system nicely.

Robot Criminal · Post by **Robot Criminal** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:01 pm

in my opinion, home is impossible to use. Its like disabled or something...

kahl_s · Post by **kahl_s** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:09 pm

dubble core cpu is only supported by xp professional, right?

gubenhinden · Post by **gubenhinden** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:31 pm

xp home also supports dual core.
the only difference, as already said by Matt, is the limitation of your network-settings.

if your are using a privat network at home with an enabled dhcp server you wont have any probs with the home edition.

mo's taverne · Post by **mo's taverne** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:55 am

yeah, i wish there is a double core inside my laptop

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Thanks for your answers so far. I asked for that on the ableton forum too, and there was the same answers - no difference performance wise. After having serious trouble with the reinstall (xp setup asked for a file on the cd which seems to be not readable) i made it with an old, original xp pro cd. I'm running now two seperate xp pro os's - one for audio work and one for i-net / uni work. Seems fine to me, cause i got a gain of ~4% cpu power in ableton . In addition to that i'm feeling safe that if i ever got a virus again (the i-net os is protected like hell), it will only damage my non-audio os.

Android · Post by **Android** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:44 am

is an Apple out of the question ?

XP is seriously like 6/7 years old at this point

thats like 18 in computer years

I know some folks still use Amiga / C64's
but those at least have the retro cool factor...

tone-def · Post by **tone-def** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:32 pm

[quote="Android"]

I know some folks still use Amiga / C64's
but those at least have the retro cool factor...

[/quote]

But those people use their computers in different ways and mostly use hardware synths, drum machines and samplers.

OSX is so much better