Windows 7

[SMOKEU]

Have any of you noticed much of a difference between Windows 7 home basic and ultimate X64?

[Gubb]

Only thing i've used from 64bit Ultimate is some of the encryption stuff, and XP compatibility mode has come in handy a couple of times.

[Gremlin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions

I just use ultimate... no restrictions... clients get pro, they need it.

[p.dath]

Have any of you noticed much of a difference between Windows 7 home basic and ultimate X64?

Are you asking about weather to go with 32 bit or 64 bit?

I use 64 bit at work, and 32 bit at home. The reason I use 32 bit at home is because my kids like to play games, and 32 bit Windows has far better compatibility.

I use 64 bit at Windows at work because all our machines have 4GB of memory, and 32 bit Windows (including 7) only allow applications to access 3GB of it. When we tried the 32 bit edition, Windows 7 allocated 1GB of RAM to the shared Video adaptor! We also mostly use 64 bit applications (like Office 2010) at work.

[Scuba_Steve]

Have any of you noticed much of a difference between Windows 7 home basic and ultimate X64?

Yea the price.

[SMOKEU]

Are you asking about weather to go with 32 bit or 64 bit?

I use 64 bit at work, and 32 bit at home. The reason I use 32 bit at home is because my kids like to play games, and 32 bit Windows has far better compatibility.

I use 64 bit at Windows at work because all our machines have 4GB of memory, and 32 bit Windows (including 7) only allow applications to access 3GB of it. When we tried the 32 bit edition, Windows 7 allocated 1GB of RAM to the shared Video adaptor! We also mostly use 64 bit applications (like Office 2010) at work.

I'm definitely not going to use the X86 version, I'm sticking with X64.

[Gremlin]

I use 64 bit at work, and 32 bit at home. The reason I use 32 bit at home is because my kids like to play games, and 32 bit Windows has far better compatibility.
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We also mostly use 64 bit applications (like Office 2010) at work.

Depends on the games your kids play I guess, but I haven't had any issues with the likes of Superbike X, CoD Black Ops, Battlefield Bad Company, NFS Hot Pursuit etc running on x64. I use 4 Win7 machines, work laptop is x86, rest are x64, no issues across the lot of them.

Watch out for Office 2010 x64, I've heard it isn't particularly stable (also MS first release of Office in x64), but I'm using it on one machine without issues so far.

[Buyasta]

Are you asking about weather to go with 32 bit or 64 bit?

I use 64 bit at work, and 32 bit at home. The reason I use 32 bit at home is because my kids like to play games, and 32 bit Windows has far better compatibility.

I use 64 bit at Windows at work because all our machines have 4GB of memory, and 32 bit Windows (including 7) only allow applications to access 3GB of it. When we tried the 32 bit edition, Windows 7 allocated 1GB of RAM to the shared Video adaptor! We also mostly use 64 bit applications (like Office 2010) at work.

I've used exclusively 64-bit Windows on my windows box since the first RC of XP x64 (the one for x86-64, not Itanium), and I can count on one hand the number of games that have had issues with a 64bit version of windows compared to 32bit - back then driver support was the big issue, and a massive nightmare, and it never got much better for XP x64, but since Vista/Server 2k8, there hasn't been any real reason to use x86 over x64.

[avgas]

I use 64 bit at Windows at work because all our machines have 4GB of memory, and 32 bit Windows (including 7) only allow applications to access 3GB of it. When we tried the 32 bit edition, Windows 7 allocated 1GB of RAM to the shared Video adaptor! We also mostly use 64 bit applications (like Office 2010) at work.

I had a Vista 32 laptop running 4gb on it.
and currently have a 7 desktop/hack/customers machine at work with no updates/patches and bad install still running 3.5gb.

While I preferred running it on 64 - None of the scada or telemetry programs worked.

I have had interesting time playing with the official VM.XP lately. Quite cool. (for those of you who desperately need XP but have to buy a 7 box)

[imdying]

but since Vista/Server 2k8, there hasn't been any real reason to use x86 over x64.

Agreed, works as it should.

[SMOKEU]

I don't know why anyone bothers making x86 OSs anymore. Even my vintage Athlon 64 supports x64 OSs. That's going back to the old AM2 days!

[p.dath]

Watch out for Office 2010 x64, I've heard it isn't particularly stable (also MS first release of Office in x64), but I'm using it on one machine without issues so far.

Been using Office 2010 x64 since it came out, and I have not had any issues with it.

I have had interesting time playing with the official VM.XP lately. Quite cool. (for those of you who desperately need XP but have to buy a 7 box)

I used "Windows XP mode" for quite a while, but finally switched over to VMWare workstation a couple of weeks ago. I just seem to have less issues with VMWare workstation.

[imdying]

I don't know why anyone bothers making x86 OSs anymore. Even my vintage Athlon 64 supports x64 OSs. That's going back to the old AM2 days!

64bit Windows is x86.

They keep making it because of things like the P4, which outsold the A64 by a huge margin.

[SMOKEU]

64bit Windows is x86.

They keep making it because of things like the P4, which outsold the A64 by a huge margin.

From what I've read 64 bit is x64 and 32 bit is x86.

http://www.overclock.net/windows/575...7-x86-x64.html

[avgas]

I don't know why anyone bothers making x86 OSs anymore. Even my vintage Athlon 64 supports x64 OSs. That's going back to the old AM2 days!

The reason is pretty simple. Up until recently Intel did not really sell much in terms of 64 bit.
Core2duo etc were all 32bit.
Also Intel pretty much own the giants share of the market. So get to dictate a pretty large chuck.
This is why many Linux users also used AMD's.

But the whole thing has changed over the last 5 years or so. A classic example of this is a little company called FOXCONN who made reliable desktop chassis have pretty much grown 10 fold and dropped desktops all together......

But until we get rid of all the P4, Core2, QuadCore......CPU's - expect x86 software for a long time to come.

Now on to ivp6 and why it didn't happen way back in 1997......