aiui if you've only got 4GB of RAM then I don't think 64-bit is going to make that much of a difference. Of course, if you have the capacity to go beyond 4GB of physical RAM and the intention to do so, then 64-bit might be worthwhile.
w.r.t Window 7 - I installed the RC (build 7100) as an experiment on my main home system. I was so impressed that it has now already replaced the Vista Home Premium that came on my recently purchased laptop AND the XP Tablet edition edition on my 4 year old, uh, tablet. Touchwood, Windows 7 hasn't let me down at all. Driver support is at least as good as Vista - all the devices were supported with no trouble even on my aging tablet. Performance is every bit as good as people have said it is and user experience is everything Vista could have been, without the annoyances. It flies along, even on my cranky old 1.4GHz tablet with 1.25 GB of RAM (only one of the 2 x 256MB DIMMS was upgradeable). My new laptop and my home system both have 4GB, but Windows 7 cruised along very, very nicely indeed in the 2GB that were in those until I upgraded recently (the price of RAM is such that there really is no excuse not to). From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter Sent: Friday, 7 August 2009 09:11 To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' Subject: [DUG] to Vista 64bit or not? Hi Guys. I am building my new machine today...YAY....and sinces I am getting a pretty res. machine (quad core with 4 gig) which is replacing my VERY faithful, but increasingly unreliable Pent 4 3GB, I am trying to decide wether or not to install Vista 64bit since I have a copy of it. The only reason I was thinking of it was that I can utilise the memory so I can use Virtual machines etc. I was thinking of Windows 7, but since its still pretty much beta, I dont want to have to reinstall everthing again when it comes out. Anyone got any ideas? Should I infact get say fedora 64bit (if there is one) and install VMware etc? Jeremy
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