Vista - Is Vista Ultimate (released version) 64bit?

"Rob A." <RobA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Colin,
>
> Can you be more specific by "soon"?
>
> It does seem strange why they pulled it from MSDN as I would think more
> people would be downloading 32bit version of Vista, not the 64bit version.
> 32bit Ultimate is 2.5GB -- is the size of the 64bit version really that
> much
> different?
>
> Thanks, Rob.
>
Colin is correct, and MSDN is not saying when (I asked MSDN Support). The
difference in ISO size is over a gig. I'll guess they left the x86 version
because everybody can use that (even if they would prefer the x64). If
they'd pulled the x86 ISO, many subscribers would be, effectively,
disenfranchised.
I, too, have the x64 up and running. It seems fine here. No "showstopper"
bugs that the conspiracy theorists would love to see

"Mark Rae" <mark@markNOSPAMrae.com> wrote in message
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> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
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>> Vista x64 supports up to 128GB of ram.
>
> I wonder how long it will be before anything approaching that amount of
> RAM is possible on a "standard" PC...
>
> Seems to me that 4Gb has pretty much been the maximum for years, and it's
> only very recently that Dell have started selling PCs with up to 8Gb...
>
Most Socket AM2 motherboards support up to 8 Gig of DDR2. Finding the $$ to
purchase the 2 Gig modules is another story, however

"pvdg42" <pvdg42@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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> Most Socket AM2 motherboards support up to 8 Gig of DDR2. Finding the $$
> to purchase the 2 Gig modules is another story, however

Or even the ££ - I had a quick search for 8Gb DDR2 in the UK, and it
averages out at about the equivalent cost of four reasonably high-spec
PCs...

My current main development machine is "maxed out" at 4GB RAM, so I guess
I'll be looking at ReadyBoost if I need any more than that...