Even with the memory, many processes are not threaded enough to use the
hardware.
I constantly see my system barely up to 40% on both processors and memory
but it hangs.

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On 6-Dec-2007, Larry Roberts <skin-e@juno.com> wrote:

> I'm getting ready to move to Vista as soon as I add another
> 2GB of RAM for a total of 4GB.

64bit can access 4GB, 2GB is probably sufficient for most
purposes. 64bit doesn't add a lot at the moment as most apps.
are 32bit, Office2007 for instance seems to be 32bit.
Some mobos. show 4GB installed, just over 3GB available,
as reported by the BIOS screen, before the OS starts to boot.
Later mobos. may have memory mapping, allowing more than
4GB to be used.
Many users are going back to XP until Vista problems
are resolved with Service Packs.
You may have problems if you have an Aetherus based
USB wireless stick, an unsupported scanner, some Laser printers
(you may have to try many models listed to see if
one will give some printer functionality).
Just a lot of things to research and sort, when you could
be doing something more productive.