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Vista; 32-bit vs 64-bit

Started by Meintool , Jul 01 2007 07:04 AM

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Meintool

Posted 01 July 2007 - 07:04 AM

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I have recently purchased an OEM version of Windows Vista Home Premium and have noticed that it's stated on the disc that the CD only installs 32-bit. So i was wondering what the difference is between 32-bit and 64-bit.

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Neil Jones

Posted 01 July 2007 - 01:21 PM

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The main notable difference is that 64-bit will allow you to use more than 4Gigs of memory, but there is not a lot of "true" 64-bit software yet and not a lot of hardware support for it either.
See http://www.tech-reci...sion_x64_vs_x86 and http://4sysops.com/a...-vista-edition/