Re: XP Media edition in Action Pack

["yhkeppy" <keith@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been playing with Media Centre Edition for about a year now,
and have just moved to the 2005 edition.

Basically, it's XP Professional with the ability to connect to
domains removed (though the 2005 installation strangely gives that
option). When you install it's just like you're installing XP Pro.

MCE itself is actually an application that runs in the OS, and
provides the media capability. The difference between 2005 and
previous versions is slight, with the largest difference being it
supports 2 tuners.

In terms of specs, i've run it on a 1GHz Athlon with 512MB RAM and
it's fine. However, if you're wanting dual tuners i'd go with
something a little more grunt.

Check out http://www.thegreenbutton.com for
more information...it's
a great resource.

Interestingly, the 2005 edition allows media centre extenders -
clients that can access the main mce machine. one of these extenders
is....an Xbox!! I'm getting mine this week, so i'll report back on
progress here.

Cheers,

Keith


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "big_red_frog" <atod@r...> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Well I just read the microsoft faq, it reckons that media center
is
> XP Home + and that it has all the functionality of XP home plus
the
> media center stuff and that the media center aspects can be
minimised
> or reduced while you do games or standard application type work.
>
> In their words it is the best version of XP to have if you are a
home
> user (guess that messes up their branding policy!)
>
> There is however comment on it cannot deal with business type
domains
> and something about credentials cacheing which means nothing to me.
>
> All I want to know now is if it is safe to attempt an on the fly
> upgrade or if I am going to have to walk through my AV server and
> work out what configurations etc to be ready to reinstall...
>
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Mark McCall" <lists@a...>
wrote:
> > > Good question, I was going to ask the same thing.  I can't
find
> > > anything on
> > > the partner site that provides a 'base spec', but it must be
there
> > > somewhere....
> >
> > There's a UK forum for MCE here...
> >
> > http://www.xpmce.com/forum/forum26.html
> >
> > Let us know what you find.
> >
> > M.