XP Pro vs upgrade from Home

[mrsd3]

I bought a new laptop that was supposed to come with
windows xp pro already installed. Instead I recieved one
with windows xp home installed and a disc to upgrade to xp
pro. I have always been told it is better to have an
original version than an upgraded version. Am I getting
ripped off?

 

[Tim Slattery]

I bought a new laptop that was supposed to come with
windows xp pro already installed. Instead I recieved one
with windows xp home installed and a disc to upgrade to xp
pro. I have always been told it is better to have an
original version than an upgraded version. Am I getting
ripped off?

No, except that they said that Pro would already be installed, and
it's not. The upgrade from Home to Pro is easy and smooth, you should
have no trouble with it.

 

[Ken Blake]

I bought a new laptop that was supposed to come with
windows xp pro already installed. Instead I recieved one
with windows xp home installed and a disc to upgrade to xp
pro. I have always been told it is better to have an
original version than an upgraded version. Am I getting
ripped off?

If you didn't get what you were told you were getting, you're
certainly justified in bringing it back and getting them to do
what was promised.

On the other hand, upgrading from XP Home to Professional is the
easiest and most-often successful of all possible upgrades. If
you're willing to do it yourself, there should be no problem in
doing so.

Also, did you get a Windows XP Home CD, or just get that
preinstalled and the XP Upgrade CD. If the latter, you're
probably better off the way you are. You wouldn't want to get XP
Professional pre-installed and no CD, if that's the alternative.