Re: Is this the end of PC gaming?

In an earlier post, Highlandish postulated:
> Quoth The Raven; Walter Mitty <mitticus@xxxxxxxxx> in
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>> In an earlier post, Highlandish postulated:
>>> Quoth The Raven; Andrew <spamtrap@localhost.> in
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>>>> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:23:15 GMT, "Schrodinger" <no@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Heh. Good spot. I wonder how long the PC will be around as a
>>>>>viable entertainment machine, though. I just noticed that Dell are
>>>>>now pushing Media Center as the default OS and penalising heavily
>>>>>choosing XP instead.
>>>>
>>>> Not having gone into this subject in great detail - does Media
>>>> Center run XP games? I thought it was basically XP with a few
>>>> multimedia bells and whistles bolted on? If it does play games, I
>>>> would have thought if anything that move would encourage PC gaming.
>>>
>>> its the dumbed down version of XP Home, so yeah it plays games fine,
>>> maybe a little better as it doesnt have so many services running in
>>> the background
>>>
>>
>> Dumbed down in what way?
>>
>> I noticed no difference in switching from a PC with XP Home and one
>> with MCE.
>
> as Home is dumbed down compared to Pro, MCE has less features than Home.
> only its media side has been increased
>

What features are missing in MCE editionwhich are in
Home? Most of the limitations in XP Home compared to Pro are related
to it acting as a server and the amount of simultaenous connections I
thought?


Come on ....


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