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| Thread ID: 104154 | 2009-10-18 18:58:00 | Windows 7 32bit or 64bit? | Mike (15) | Press F1 |
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| 821768 | 2009-10-18 21:44:00 | Not everyone can afford to upgrade their PCs every week .. Or, apparently, every 5 years. So, apologies, it seems I was a bit premature in assuming people had vaguely recent hardware when looking to install Windows 7. So, then, I'll rephrase and say I can see no reason to install the 32-bit version of WIndows 7 on any PC that has full hardware support for 64-bit OSes. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 821769 | 2009-10-18 22:09:00 | So all things being equal, is there a big performance gain using 64-bit? And are major suites like Office 2007 being re-released so they can address all the extra RAM etc? |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 821770 | 2009-10-18 22:13:00 | If the program is 64 bit, then things can be faster. And no, I dont think Office 07 will be 64 bit (it looks like Office 2010 will be 32 and 64 bit tho) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 821771 | 2009-10-18 22:26:00 | Personally I don't see why they bothered to release a 32-bit edition, I can't see any circumstances where it will provide any benefit or advantage over the 64-bit edition, only disadvantages. The biggest and most obvious disadvantage with only having 64 bit version of Windows 7 is netbooks and Netbook are tone of the fastest growing segments of the PC industry so it would be madness for Microsoft not to support Windows 7 on 32bit hardware Cheers Nathan |
nmercer (3899) | ||
| 821772 | 2009-10-18 22:28:00 | If the program is 64 bit, then things can be faster. And no, I dont think Office 07 will be 64 bit (it looks like Office 2010 will be 32 and 64 bit tho) there will never be a native 64 bit version of Office 2007, but 2007 runs fine on 64 bit versions of Windows using the WoW64 layer Office 2010 will have a native 64 bit version as well as continue to have 32 bit as well |
nmercer (3899) | ||
| 821773 | 2009-10-18 22:45:00 | The biggest and most obvious disadvantage with only having 64 bit version of Windows 7 is netbooks Very good point, only the higher-end Atom (and similar) CPUs are x64 still eh. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 821774 | 2009-10-18 22:48:00 | With the 64-bit version of windows, you cannot run 16-bit applications as the 32-bit version does unless you install XP-Mode and then run them from within XP-Mode. Drivers are pretty darn good for 64-bit, far, far less issues when compared with Vista / XP. Bear in mind that even if you have 3GB RAM, if you've got a large graphics card (512MB -> 1024MB for example) then you still might not even be able to access all your 3GB on a 32-bit OS. So if you've got 2GB RAM or more, or envisage you will in the near future, it's worth going for 64-bit :) Because (with the noted exception of netbooks) it is where the PC world is headed with faster CPUs, bigger graphics cards etc, it's pretty safe to go 64-bit at the moment :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 821775 | 2009-10-18 22:55:00 | Very good point, only the higher-end Atom (and similar) CPUs are x64 still eh. Not specifically, even some of the single-core Atoms support x64 extensions. "x86-64 is so far only activated for the Atom 230, 330, 410 & 510 desktop models. N and Z series Atom models cannot run x86-64 code" en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 821776 | 2009-10-18 23:13:00 | there will never be a native 64 bit version of Office 2007, but 2007 runs fine on 64 bit versions of Windows using the WoW64 layer Office 2010 will have a native 64 bit version as well as continue to have 32 bit as well Which is what I said. Yup, I know Office 07 works in 64 bit, I'm using it in 64 bit. Bit late having 64 bit for Office 07 anyway, if anyone didnt notice its 2009 |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 821777 | 2009-10-18 23:15:00 | Which is what I said. Yup, I know Office 07 works in 64 bit, I'm using it in 64 bit. Bit late having 64 bit for Office 07 anyway, if anyone didnt notice its 2009 yep, just posting a bit more info |
nmercer (3899) | ||
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