What’s the difference with windows home edition, windows professional, and windows 64bit professional? Windows said that the difference in home and professional is that pro has some different networking things. Would pro work better over home edition for a game laptop? Does the 64bit have good driver support? Thanks in advance for answers.
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Anonymous2005-12-02 1:15
Home Edition lacks the business-oriented features of Professional, like more extensive networking and access control features. 64-Bit Professional is Professional compiled for the x86-64 CPU instruction set (most CPUs use the 32-bit x86 instruction set). There should be no problems with drivers on 64-bit Windows, as x86-64 is a superset of x86. Thus, x86-64 processors can natively run x86 code, which is probably all you'll be getting in the way of anything that isn't part of Windows.
I don't know of any real difference in performance between Home and Professional.
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Anonymous2005-12-03 8:33
Wrongo. 32-bit drivers DO NOT WORK on 64-bit Windows in any case. You need drivers explicitly created for 64-bit Windows and that's were the problems start. Since 64-bit is not that far spread in the Windows-world there are not many 64-bit drivers around. Wouldn't expect this to improve anytime soon.
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Anonymous2005-12-03 11:48
Note that all kernel components need to be compiled for 64 bits, including absolutely all device drivers. This means software like Ethereal or Alcohol 120%, which use devices, will not work on Windows XP 64 bit edition.