The reason you'll find XP Pro on more laptops in a retail enviroment is they are more likely aimed towards business users where as desktop systems are geared for home users with a bunch of mulitmedia crap on them. Look at Toshiba Tecra laptops, mostly XP Pro. Toshiba Satellite on the other hand is often XP Home. It's all about the modeling and intended end user.
Lastly, why buy prebuilt? Computerbase as well as other stores can build you a custom system in as little as 24 hours with whatever OS or no OS. --- Garl Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I really doubt this last statement. Try to buy a computer in a > retail > store (Costco, Office Depot, Office Max, Circuit City, etc.). > Every > single desktop will have either XP Home or XP Media Edition. > The later > is based on Pro, but is only available on very high end > systems. I know > this because I need a PC fast and I just looked at all of the > stores > listed above. No XP Pro without spending $180 on the "Upgrade" > edition > of Pro. I did find a couple of high end laptops that had Pro, > but that > was it. > > Garl > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
