ato_zee@hotmail.com wrote:

>
>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,

64-bit Vista can access more than 4GB. Home Basic can handle 8GB, Home
Premium 16GB, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate can handle 128GB. All
the 32-bit versions have a 4GB address space (but won't actually be
able to use an entire 4GB of RAM, see
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt/RAM.html)

>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.

Very true, also many peripherals have 32-bit but not 64 bit drivers.
When I bought a laptop a few weeks ago, there were *many* with 64-bit
hardware, but every single one of them had 32-bit Vista loaded. That
tells me something.

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Tim Slattery
MS MVP(Shell/User)
Slattery_T@bls.gov
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