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SWX on XP Home / Media Center

SWX on XP Home / Media Center

SWX on XP Home / Media Center

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I'm thinking of buying a laptop which will for the most part be used for my personal internet, e-mail, etc.  I will occasionally have the need to use it for some Solidworks stuff from home.  I don't want to get into a discussion of which laptop to get, because I already know that it won't be ideal from a hardware standpoint.  For the limited amount I will use SWX on this laptop, I'm OK with a performance hit.

I'm wondering what your experiences are with SWX running on XP Home or Media Center?  These operating systems are much more common in the garden variety laptops than XP Pro and if one is better than the other I'd like to know it going in.  As far as my personal use goes, I really don't care which OS I get.

Thanks,
Dave Gowans

RE: SWX on XP Home / Media Center

I only tried SolidWorks 2001 on XP Media Center. It worked fine. Don't know about 2006/2007.
Have you asked your VAR?

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)

RE: SWX on XP Home / Media Center

I have XP Pro with Media center and SW works fine on. As for the home version it should work on it fine, but its not listed... so IMO that doesn't say one way or the other, if it wasn't supported they would say, so IMO I think they are impling that it is with XP Pro.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: SWX on XP Home / Media Center

I am running SW 2006 and had a previous version of SW 2007 on XP Home at home without problems. Have also run on a Toshiba laptop with XP tablet edition (a variant of XP Pro).

RE: SWX on XP Home / Media Center

I'd suggest that you consider upgrading to XP Pro if you can do so cheaply while ordering your laptop. The reason is that SWX may not always support XP Home.

In my last job, I was running Siemens PLC software. Although it called for XP Pro, it did run on XP Home (though with the occasional crash). A few months later, when I tried to install a service pack, it wouldn't install because I wasn't running XP Pro.

At least with Dell, it's cheaper to upgrade the OS when you order than if you just buy a stand-alone Home-to-Pro update.

Just something to consider.

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