I have few questions about the pcs in market.. 1. What the difference between Business Pcs and Home Pcs? 2. Why all these good companies like Dell, HP, Compaq, Gateway, IBM have different lines for business and Home? 3. Why business pcs are more expensive? 4. Whats the technical difference between Business pc and home pc? Thanks a lot. Cyrus.

Business PCs usuaully run OS like Win NT, 2000 Pro, and XP Pro. These OSs are more secure and made for large corporate environments. They tend to be a little more stable and faster. Homes usually use OS like Win98, ME, XP Home, because of it sease of use, and compatibility...etc. Buiness PCs are more expensive us because of the OS, but only like a $100 difference. The hardware in both category is identical.

thanx much.. Cyrus

I think buisness PCs tend to have larger harddrives as well. And some have better backup software included in them as well. I bought a cd-rw and got home and noticed it was a buisness edition only difference it included a dantz backup program on the CD that came with it.

That is strange beacause over here in the UK the Business Range tends to be cheaper than the Home Pc. Over here if you buy a Business Pc it tends to be a very basic configuration, lower graphics card as not used for gaming, on board sound as 5.1 channel not essential, etc,.

True here also forgot to mention cheaper graphics and sound

The reason for lesser graphics frills, sound cards, etc, is the business user doesn't usually need them, and, more importantly, there are less hardware issues with a basic configuration. Just try to design your own "dream" PC and get it up and running with little or no hardware and driver issues, and you'll know exactly why the emphasis in business pc's is on hard drive speed, and memory.