Quote: Originally Posted by
roy69 
64 bits are better than 32 in a programmers eye. Not only can you see more memory but the variables can hold more data. This alone can creat a speed increase. I agree with SQUID on two points, 64 is better than 32 for speed and performance. Don`t forget that this is a young os. As time goes buy more people will get used to it, more people will support it and it WILL grow.
In a programmer's eye certainly. In an end-user's eye, no. I still recommend x86 to clients who have less than 4 GB RAM. x64 is larger and, on all the benchmarks I've run, slower than x86 on machines with 4 GB or less. Until the minimum memory available on PCs is 6 GB, I'll continue to push x86 and have happier clients. In real-world terms, it *is* all about the RAM.