Vista Home Basic, Premium, and Vista Business

[vacunita]

It has probably been asked a few thousand times, but since the search feature here has been disabled, i have been unlucky in finding the threads for this question.


Anyway, I'm going to buy a new Laptop for myself. I'm a Computer Engineer BTW. The question is. The new laptop 'm gonna buy is a Toshiba, it comes pre-installed with Vista Home Basic and only 512MB ram.

I'm gonna upgrade that to 2GB since i know Vista is a bit of a memory hog. But i'm unsure, since i have had little contact with Vista flavors, which one works better for an IT environment. My current laptop has Windows XP Pro installed. I obviously formatted the Pre-Installed XP home to replace it for the Domain connection, and the Administrative side of Xp Pro.

So what I'm asking is should i go for Home Premium? or Upgrade straight to Business? Are there any major differences that I might notice? etc.. Or should I spend a bit more, and get the one with Business pre-installed?

Thanx in advance for any help.

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[smah]

Here's a few that might answer your questions:

Vista version equivalent to Win XP thread1583-1328980
version differences thread1583-1252369
Remote Desktop - which version of Vista?? thread1583-1336336

The biggest differences that you might need - ability to join a domain, Remote Desktop, backup.

 

[vacunita]

Thanx for the links.

Remote Desktop is a must, and Ability to Join a domain goes without saying.

Backup, not so much. I can backup myself without a Microsoft product to help me out.



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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[linney]

Upgrade your current PC to Windows Vista

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/default.mspx

Check out the Upgrade Advisor from the above links.

If you are buying one then Business or Ultimate will be the versions of choice.

 

[vacunita]

Thanx linney. I'm buying a new one. And I'm now leaning towards Business.

It seems the Home Basic and Premium versions don't offer what I need.

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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[twicki]

If you are running on a network then go for Business or Ultimate as the home versions cannot connect to a domain, the remote desktop feature is available in all versions and can be downloaded from Microsoft to keep to the current version. Ultimate is a bit overkill for a business unless you are big into the Graphics which is where it steps up. For most users the features are not much different other than they look more pretty and they have centralised everything in the control panel but this is cross board. Home Premium builds in the Media Centre, Business allows Domains, Home Basic is just that and ultimate is the lot. I have just upgraded to a Toshiba Satelite Pro A120 with business and at home i rum a media centre with home premium both run fine with 1gb of ram. Hope this helps

 

[vacunita]

Thanx.

I'll be getting Vista Business, with it.




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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[smah]

twicki, the RD client is available for all versions of Windows, the RD host feature is not. Vista Basic is the only version with a difference in the graphics.