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RE: Vista Ultimate or Windows Media Center?!?
Yeh ShawnZ, I've had both installed on my laptop before. Media Edition on Vista Home Premium and above is not speculator, then again neither is it on XP Media Centre Edition. I've also pointed out Vista works a lot better with external monitors, and a charm with my TV.
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08-21-2007 11:35 PM
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RE: Vista Ultimate or Windows Media Center?!?
Even better!
was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.

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08-22-2007 01:14 AM
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RE: Vista Ultimate or Windows Media Center?!?
mythtv isn't an operating system.. :p
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08-22-2007 01:17 AM
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I took the leap and tossed Vista Ultimate on... looks like I have some upgrading to do... Somehow it came back with a 1.0 rating which is odd because last time I did it was a 2.5 or something like that... who knows.
08-22-2007 03:48 AM
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I took the leap and tossed Vista Ultimate on... looks like I have some upgrading to do... Somehow it came back with a 1.0 rating which is odd because last time I did it was a 2.5 or something like that... who knows.
does it matter?, its just going to run wmc :-/
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08-22-2007 04:46 AM
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I took the leap and tossed Vista Ultimate on... looks like I have some upgrading to do... Somehow it came back with a 1.0 rating which is odd because last time I did it was a 2.5 or something like that... who knows.
yay for arbitrary numbers.

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08-22-2007 04:48 AM
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RE: Vista Ultimate or Windows Media Center?!?
The number takes the lowest rating number. You may just have one weak feature of your computer :P.
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08-22-2007 10:28 AM
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RE: Vista Ultimate or Windows Media Center?!?
Probably not got the ATi drivers working properly? It displays 1.0 if there's no way to benchmark 3d performance. (For the crappy rating)

I would've said get Home Premium as well, since atm, there's nothing amazing about Ultimate. (My Home Premium has Dream Scene, and it kinda sucks anyway :P). Except that yer getting it for the same price, so it doesn't really matter. :)

Home Premium has Media Centre, contrary to what Shawnz said. (At least I hope it's supposed to, since I have it).

XP Media Centre is the suck... the only good thing about that entire "upgrade" is the Royale theme is a bit nicer. But I have it on XP SP2 "normal" anyway. :)
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RE: Vista Ultimate or Windows Media Center?!?
Hmm seems I´m the only one voting for XP media centre...
Vista can seriously lag your movies if your specs arent high enough...
and it seems to me those specs are pushing it...
08-22-2007 11:32 AM
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RE: Vista Ultimate or Windows Media Center?!?
Windows vista ultimate along with Transcode 360 (y)

and you have a media center that plays what ever you want.

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08-23-2007 08:12 AM
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