We have been looking at the Media Center edition pc’s. I was wondering if you can still run your programs on it like regular XP. Will Z3 run on it? I have found some that have some pretty good specs, but it focuses on the media side of the OS that I wonder if you take a hit with your other programs. We are wanting something to record DVD’s of our family, but I want it to double as my computer with my programs. Any opinions would be helpful. Thanks.
Media center edition is simply XP with the Media Center application and a few extra drivers for more obscure tv capture software and whatnot. In fact by default, when booting up a Media Center installation, the media center application doesn’t even run, you have to load it manually (although you can change this option to automatic).
Thanks, that’s kind of how it sounded but they covered the media portion so much it was difficult to figure out if it was simply XP with a little extra piled on top. Thanks again.