What's wrong with Windows Media Center on a G1?

Okay so I keep reading everyone saying that Windows Media Center Edition is a bad OS choice for the Asus G1...I am wonderng what makes the Windows Media Center OS such a bad choice for the G1 laptop?

 

The OS is fine on the system..... Asus is trying to get rid of licenses before Vista comes out...... The model doesn't come with a tv tuner, so out of the box it really doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense, but there is zero wrong with it. It's basically an added bonus that you can't use unless you add a tv tuner.

 

I also means you get an upgrade to Vista Home Premium, which makes more sense for a gaming system then the upgrade to Vista Business that comes with XP Pro.

 

J - that's true too.... I'm sure that could be the spiced up commerical way of putting it, but I know as a company Asus hasn't sold the number of MCE models this year that they would have wanted.... I can't see them having more licenses than they need, but it seems like perhaps they did have extras because they put MCE on the latest shipments of A8's and W5's as well...... Basically any model that had XP Home is now coming with MCE instead.

 

Well, regular XP Home only gets an upgrade to Vista Home Basic, which as far as I know doesn't include the Aero Glass interface.

So it makes sense to me to put XP MCE on the machines now to make sure the user gets Aero Glass in the spring.

MS basically screwed all the manufacturers over by making the lowest Vista Home useless, since it doesn't include the one major improvement, Aero Glass. They will have to eat the cost of moving all machines to the next grade of OS up, or pass it on to the consumer. I doubt Home Basic will be sold much at all...

I think it's good foresight on Asus part for the people buying new machines, now that MS has finalized all the Vista grades and what upgrades to what.

 

So it sounds like it will be a good thing for all of us who are getting a G1...thanks guys!

 

I think the best thing about vista is readyboost

I think you can live without aero. but its nice.

 

Personally, Window Vista Home Basic is created for a simple reason, not to screw all other manufactures or whatever. Both Business and Premium are designed to be the next big thing, yet not everyone will have the processors to upgrade, since both of these require tremondous powers from both GPU and BIOS! In fact, I doubt most of the people will be able to upgrade; not everyone will update their computer every year. To those who do upgrade their computers/notebooks, they are a mere percentage of the entire population.

So, the question is, what will those who choose to be faithful to their old computers/notebooks do when they want to try window vista? ... Home Basic. Thus, Home Basic is created to solely cater to those with weaker processors. A key point is when introducing something new, one should make sure everyone is able to use it (to gaurenteed the most support) and that is what MS did.

And guess what? People who use the Win XP Home Edition are those have older processors and who are most likely would need Vista Home Basic to run, and one would ask how come WinXP Home Edition get free Vista Basic??

 

XP MCE 2005 is based on XP Pro, the only difference is that it doesn't enable Active Directory domain support which is to discourage it's use in corporate environments. Other than that there is nothing wrong with it.

As others have mentioned, XP MCE qualifies for Vista Home Premium, which is beneficial to most people vs. XP Pro which upgrades to Vista Business. XP MCE 2005 is also cheaper than XP Pro. So it's a win-win situation for both ASUS and most consumers.

 

I tend to agree with Jumper on this. I wanted WMC so that I could upgrade to the Aero Vista version. I made another thread asking about the WMC and also heard that it was a bad option for the system, but why - just because we don't have a tuner card in the system? I do want a tuner card but there are external ones...so that doesn't annoy me at all. What would annoy me is having a new OS that isn't upgradeable to Vista Home Premium.

This is why I agree - thumbs up to Asus for doing this.