Re: possible to upgrade

From: Bob (nottooslow_at_forevermail.com)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 02:50:56 GMT

In article <geWdnSXKXLz_x9vcRVn-jQ@snappydsl.net>, bbcarlson@snappydsl.net
says...
> I'm no expert, but no one answered the one question you had and that is if
> Home could be upgraded to Pro. According to my XP for Idiots book it is
> possible to do that.
>
> There are a lot of reasons for an MT to want Pro over Home and it has been
> covered on this group enough and I am not expert enough to go in to them
> all, but if you know you want Pro why are you considering buying a computer
> with Home? There are lots of computers out there being sold with Pro. I'd
> look a bit more.
>
> Barb C.

Barb,

I believe someone did answer the question. But in case it wasn't answered,
all the major PC vendors will offer to upgrade the version of Windows that
comes with the PC from XP Home to XP Pro for $75 to $95. Just to prevent
any confusion, this means that the PC comes with XP Pro installed rather
than having XP Home installed and then upgraded to XP Pro with an XP Pro
upgrade disk before the machine is delivered to the customer.

Bob/Texas

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