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    XP license within Vista Home Basic???

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by 1t4scot, Mar 9, 2007.

  1. 1t4scot

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    I recently purchased four new Inspiron 640M, Intel Pentium
    dual-core processor T2060 (1MB/1.6GHz/533MHz) for my team of developers. One of the requirements they stated was that the OS had to be XP Pro. The only option with this package from Dell was Vista Home Basic. The price was so right I figured I would buy XP Pro licenses and wipe the drives of Vista and reinstall with the XP Pro. Then a friend of mine thought that Vista might include a backward license to XP.

    Question:
    Does Vista Home Basic contain an XP license of any sort?
    Does Vista Home Basic have the ability to switch to XP without uninstalling and reinstalling?
    Are my developers concerns unfounded?
    Would any other version of Vista remedy my concerns and provide any other options?
    Will XP even run on the aforementioned hardware?

    The machines have 2GB RAM as they are developing in the JAVA environment and don't want to have to compete with Vista for RAM.

    I'm not sure if what I'm asking makes a lot of sense so I'm hoping that someone can help me here.

    Thank you
     
    1t4scot, Mar 9, 2007
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  2. WackyT

    WackyT Notebook Deity

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    No
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    What concerns? That the laptops need to be XP Pro?
    In a business environment, I'd get at least Vista Business so if you want to run in a domain environment.
    If Vista can run on it, then 99% sure XP can.
     
    WackyT, Mar 9, 2007
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    1t4scot Newbie

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    WackyT thanks for looking into my questions.

    Primary concern is that Vista in any fasion, as I understand it, is a RAM hog and my developers are concerned that Vista will be a resource competitor.

    Thus the desire to be running XP pro.

    If this is the case do you have suggestions where I can pickup four copies of XP Pro online somewhere for a good price?

    thank you
     
    1t4scot, Mar 9, 2007
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  4. WackyT

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    I'd run XP Pro just because Vista is too new an entity for important work.

    Windows XP Pro SP2 OEM: $88.90
     
    WackyT, Mar 9, 2007
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