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<blockquote data-quote="EFFENDI" data-source="post: 657646" data-attributes="member: 555674">Athlon XP and Sempron are marketed as two different processors, but are pretty much the same. Semprons are AMDs &quot;budget&quot; chips similar to Intels Celeron line.edit: this should clear things up.... <a href="http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/35480/" target="_blank">http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/35480/</a>To answer your second question, yes, there are volume liscence discounts for Windows XP Pro.HOWEVER!!!....Microsoft (although they dont want you to know) is not too picky if you legitimately purchase a physical copy of XP Pro, and install it on 3 or 4 machines. You can even activate all of those copies...its more or less the pirated versions that Microsoft cares about. (eg. 30K systems all with the same serial number). If you are looking to buy 20 or more licenses, then I would contact one of Microsofts authorized business software dealers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EFFENDI, post: 657646, member: 555674"] Athlon XP and Sempron are marketed as two different processors, but are pretty much the same. Semprons are AMDs "budget" chips similar to Intels Celeron line. edit: this should clear things up.... [URL="http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/35480/"]http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/35480/[/URL] To answer your second question, yes, there are volume liscence discounts for Windows XP Pro. HOWEVER!!!....Microsoft (although they dont want you to know) is not too picky if you legitimately purchase a physical copy of XP Pro, and install it on 3 or 4 machines. You can even activate all of those copies...its more or less the pirated versions that Microsoft cares about. (eg. 30K systems all with the same serial number). If you are looking to buy 20 or more licenses, then I would contact one of Microsofts authorized business software dealers. [/QUOTE]

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