Nope you not missing anything. When you have a CPU that is able to run 64 Bit, it is still able to do 32 Bit. How ever if your sound card, video, and anything hardware related has not made a 64 bit Driver for that Device, then you will have issues. It's not the OS that is holding back from switching to true 64 Bit, it's the Hardware Vendors and Software Vendors that is holding back. As they have to research and reprogram everything for the new Architecture.
Matt -----Original Message----- From: Dane Trethowan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 1:57 PM To: Don H Cc: gwmicro Subject: Re: 64 bit OS Well articles I read in the technology guides in our local newspapers for example consistently say that people should (if they can) get their local technitions to build their computer systems for them but that of course isn't always practical, the ragument for this being that the customer can choose the components or operating system he/she desires. Now I'm not absolutely familiar with PC Notebooks these days but the one's I see reviewed have options to "upgrade" to Windows XP over Vista. So what if you've got a machine which is capable of running a 64-bit operating system, you can still load a 32-bit operating system onto it as far as I know. Am I missing something here? Don H wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that if you are looking for a new computer > from the big box stores that it is becoming difficult to find a laptop > or desktop that is not running a 64 bit operating system. I have > always been a Dell person but in todays world don't see the benefit of > building one from Dell since there support is no better than that from > HP which is mostly sold at the big box stores at about 1/2 the price > of the dell. Even the ready made Dells at places like Best Buy are 64 > bit operating systems. I have tried to encourage Doug to get WE to > run on a 64 bit system but it would seem that this is not a priority > item on the to do list. > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and > your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending > your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search > form at the bottom of the page. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body > of the message. > -- ****************************** Dane Trethowan >From Melton Victoria Australia mailto:"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Phone (+61 3) 8732 9237 Fax (+61 3) 9743 7954 Mobile/SMS (+61 418) 773 532 MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype callto:grtdane12 ****************************** If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
