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"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You are confusing cores and cpus. Think sockets. XP Home can use one
socket. XP Pro two. It is immaterial how many cores are on the cpu in a
socket. XP Home can use a quad-core cpu just fine. XP Pro can use two of
them. Each cpu being used will list on the Task Manager Performance Tab
as a physical processor and each of the cores on a cpu will list as a
logical processor. XP Home running on a Core 2 Quad will show one
physical cpu and four logical cpus.


Then some computer vendors seem to be misinformed as well. The relative few
that still offer Windows XP with a new PC, will not offer XP Home as an
option with a Core 2 processor claiming that they only work with XP
Professional.

"M.I.5¾" <no.one@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:40:00 -0000, "M.I.5¾"
<no.one@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


However, having said that XP Home does not support many of the more
powerful
processors that PCs now ship with. Even XP professional does not
support
the top notch processors (the Viiv models spring to mind here).


I know nothing about Viiv processors (although reading about it, it
seems to be specifically for use as a media center), but if XP
Professional supports a processor, so does XP Home. Their processor
support is identical. The only difference is that Professional
supports two processors and Home only one (but both support dual-core
processors).


I was lead to believe that although XP professional will fully support
Dual and Quad core processors, XP Home, although it will run with them,
only with one core.





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