Windows XP Home with SP2 QUESTION

I've been searching for the answer for the past 45 minutes and can't seem to find it on the net. I turn to you now - as I've had good luck having my questions answered on this forum.
Here we go :
I've just ordered Windows XP Home Edition with SP2 from Amazon.com and would like to know how many PC's can I install it on simultaniously without running into any kind of problems. Someone told me that it's up to 2 separate computers that it can be installed on - I just wanted to make sure, since I want to use it on my MacBook and my girlfriends MacBook as well.
Thank you in advance for your time and help

you probably need to purchase an additional license, unless you don't plan to run windows update on one of the computers. if you go through with the whole registration, microsoft will probably disable one of the computer's key, at which point I think windows will stop working after 30 days.

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