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Ah, it's Pro because it's using Hyper-V.

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Then make Hyper-v home.

Seriously this is a killer feature needed by everybody. And specially the non-pro users.

A lot (most?) of the hardware Home runs on doesn't support hardware virtualization.

Effectively all x86_64 hardware from the last 10+ years supports hardware virtualization, so I can't agree.

Not necessarily in the Bios settings. And there are CPUs without still.

Aside from the points made by another reply (BIOS support, older CPUs), some machines have virtualization switched off by default because it's broken. I had a (fairly old) x86-64 laptop that would randomly hardlock while running VMs if I turned on hardware virtualization.

£2,500 Dell XPS ships Home out of the box unless specified otherwise.

Windows SKU has nothing to do with hardware.

https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/2-in-1-laptops/new-xps-15-2-...

Actually I can't seem to configure that directly from dell to come with Pro lol. Seems there's a question about that too.

With Dell you have to buy the business version of a notebook to get Windows Pro. Your example would be [1][2]. Apart from price the main differences are that the business versions ship with Windows Pro and that they have better warranty (next-day onsite).

1: https://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop/tablets-and-2-in-1-lapt...

2: https://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop/laptops/new-xps-15-2-in...

The Windows Store in Windows 10 has a "one-click" $99 upgrade from Home to Pro, Dell doesn't really need to offer it as a configuration item anymore.

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