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| Time: 23:46 EST/04:46 GMT | News Source: Windows Vista Blog | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Chris Flores: There appears to be a shift taking place in the PC industry: the move from 32-bit to 64-bit PCs.
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| #1 By 8556 (12.206.195.4) at Thursday, July 31, 2008 08:32:26 AM |
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"This is in stark contrast to the experience of many technology enthusiasts who built their 64-bit PC from scratch and may have had to scour the Web looking for drivers."
I wonder if the writer ever purchased a motherboard. The quoted comment is quite ignorant as driver disks are included with even the cheapest boards. Checking to see if 64-bit Vista drivers are included, questionable on older chipset boards, takes all of a few seconds. |
| #2 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:37:39 AM |
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64 bit is the only way to go for a large number of users. With fast RAM at about 70 dollars (US) for 4GB of PC6400 (2 x 2 GB), it's a very affordable upgrade. On most main boards, moving to 8GB is possible and with that amount of RAM and Vista x64, its SuperFetch and Hybrid-Sleep change fundamentally, how a computer is used. Suddenly things that simply weren't possible become possible - editing very large RAW files quickly, or working in HD video as I very often do. 140 bucks for that kind of capability is not a big investment.
Oh... think about this... "if" Vista had been written with a focus on old hardware only - and not on what was part of Intel's and AMD's roadmap... just how awful and stupid would that be? We'd all have way over powered machines with and OS and SW that made no use of them and we'd not being doing more and more with our software - effects for example, or 3D modelling, etc... not to mention things like HL7 compliance in imagery (for doctors). The point is, Intel/AMD own the "architecture" Microsoft built for their roadmaps and for what HW/SW developers could/would be capable of doing - as well as for what already existed. This differs a great deal from where we were - stuck with an OS and SW that could not use the power that had become so affordable. This is true across the entire OS we call Vista - Rally, RDC, NUMA, etc... if you have not tried x64... give it a shot. It'll surprise you. |
| #3 By 2332 (66.92.78.241) at Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:09:06 AM |
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I'm running Vista Business 64 at work with 5GB of ram. Love it. Haven't had a single issue with drivers or compatibility issues.
My next desktop is going to have 8GB of ram, so Vista 64 is a must. A lot of high end workstation motherboards actually support 16GB of ram these days... and honestly, that's about $400 of ram if you go with the non-high end stuff and have 8 slots to play with. |
| #4 By 3746 (216.16.225.210) at Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:46:15 AM |
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#3
My new system that I just built is Vista x64, 8 GB Ram, Quad core and the thing is super fast. No issues with any drivers or compatibility issues also. I have also been testing some vista x64 vs XP x64 workstations at a client of mine and have had great success with the Vista boxes. Most of the people using them prefer the Vista systems and we have seen no difference in performance between identical boxes running the two OSes. |
| #5 By 2960 (70.177.180.170) at Friday, August 01, 2008 10:04:03 AM |
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I wish CheckPoint would pay attention to this.
First they kept saying Q3, Q3, Q3 Q3 then Q4 for a 64 Bit version of SecureClient. Now, they won't make one at all. This is the ONLY thing keeping me from going to 64-bit. TL |
