Jim it's my understanding that Boot Camp is only for XP Pro SP2. On the other hand Parallels will let you run XP Home and all other flavors of Windows no problem. http://parallels.com -- Taylor > On 4/6/06 7:14 AM, "Stroller" <macmonster at myrealbox.com> wrote: > >> there's no clear indication in your post >> that you need the Professional edition of XP over the Home edition. > On Apr 6, 2006, at 7:38 PM, Jim Robertson wrote: > I know virtually nothing about the various flavors of XP. I bought > XP Pro > for two computers in our office because I read something that said > that if > there were more than five nodes on a network XP Pro was the better > choice. > > If I have a laptop (MacBook Pro) that joins a network occasionally, > but the > network has 8-20 machines on it, and I configure the Windows > partition to be > a DHCP client of our DSL router, can it be running XP Home edition? > > Is XP Pro better configured to avoid infections?