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Age of 64-bit has arrived, Age of 32-bit is vanishing!

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rasmasyean   11-01-2008 at 10:13:19 PM

Soon, no more 32-bit computers will ship... :(

Out of the 11 HP laptops listed as "new arrivals" at Best Buy, 9 come with 4GB of memory and 64-bit Vista. Ironically, the other two new-arrival HP systems come with "Windows Vista Business downgraded to XP Pro."

In other words, you get either XP or 64-bit Vista: 32-bit Vista is not offered standard at all in this list of new arrivals.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3- [...] ?tag=mncol

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notherdude   11-02-2008 at 02:54:37 AM
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Yea, a walk through Best Buy even a few weeks ago showed most of the offerings were 64. And a month or so before this development Best Buy floor persons were overheard warning people off the 'incompatible' Vista 64, LOL.

This is a very good development. Any laggards not offering 64 bit support will have to get with the program now. It looks like 64 bit will in fact soon be THE standard, finally. I thought it might never happen, really, a year or two ago it looked that way.


Message edited by notherdude on 11-02-2008 at 02:55:44 AM
------------------------------ tehhardpro wrote :


notherdude u have an old hand. Having an old hand doesnt make sence. Cuz its old. get a new one.. seems like ur hand doesnt understand what it is writing. So placve it in ur rig instead of vista human orgnoids will amke more sense
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br3nd064   11-02-2008 at 04:40:35 AM
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As notherdude said, a lot has changed in the past year. Driver support and compatibility for 64 bit was horrible a year ago.

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rasmasyean   11-02-2008 at 06:54:17 AM
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It's inevitable. You know that RAM will drop. And it's just a matter of when it will reach a point for manufacturers to deem it a "must" for competing with each other. You know, most people who buy these have no clue what the difference is anyway. Not even much of the "geek squad".


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tcsenter   11-02-2008 at 02:21:34 PM
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What is also inevitable, is that developers will not be remotely as concerned about bloat of their application memory footprint. We may see a very fast transition from "8GB won't be needed for a long time" to "OMG...iTunes, Google Earth, and Internet Explorer are each using 2GB." Give them an inch...

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rasmasyean   11-02-2008 at 06:22:14 PM
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tcsenter wrote :

What is also inevitable, is that developers will not be remotely as concerned about bloat of their application memory footprint. We may see a very fast transition from "8GB won't be needed for a long time" to "OMG...iTunes, Google Earth, and Internet Explorer are each using 2GB." Give them an inch...



Yes I agree exactly. In this day and age competition is so fast and furious that developers don’t have time to optimize their code in order to be first to market. I remember when the Intel Pentium first came out and a salesperson was like, just get a 486 because a Pentium will never be needed. Because it’s like the mainframe. :lol:

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rasmasyean   11-02-2008 at 08:30:33 PM
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In NewEgg’s Top Desktop Sellers List as-of the time of this writing, it also resembles the above pattern. Interestingly, there are 2 "Windows Vista Business downgraded to XP Pro" too! :D
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] %20Sellers

All the XP computers are under $500. :p

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maximiza   11-03-2008 at 03:19:42 PM
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about time, 64 bit hardware was around for many many years and never used fully.

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