Vista - 64-bit: More than just the RAM

Yeah... lol. Remember when 850MB hard drives and Fat 32 was the ****?! Fastest thing around! I remember when I read in the business section of my newspaper that Intel was planning to release a 200mHz Pentium processor... my response was something like, 'My God! How fast do they need to go?!' lmao at myself now...

That really was a great article about 64 bit architecture. I learned a lot. Now where can I get me fingers on a copy of Windows 7 RC1?
Thanks much in advance!

I actually remember that my first PC was a 100MHz Hewitt Packard with 1.0125GB hard drive and 16MB RAM and at the time it was top of the line. Amazing that now we have RAM that has more memory than those hard drives. And cell phones that process faster than the pc did.

I never quite understood what was so special about 64 bit until I upgraded to it and now I dont want to go back to anything else.

I upgraded to a Pentium 100 after using my first 'real' PC... a 486 w/ 2 MB of ram. My first PC was a 3000.00 IBM 8088 with, um, NO ram... lol. It had a 15 mb hard drive, 5.25" floppys were what all the software came on.
After upgrading to Windows 95, I went out to upgrade my ram from 8 to 16 mb... that extra 8 mb of ram cost me $325.00! For 8MB. Nowadays you can buy a PC with 2 GB of Ram for about the same. Remember MS saying Win95 worked great w/ 8mb of ram? And they're STILL B.S.ing us! lol...

I can't see using anything else but a 64 bit OS myself, brother. And to think I put off installing my copy of Ultimate 64 for almost two years!

they say vista should have 1GB of ram but its not enough.. i think 4GB is about right.. not perfect but good..

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.

i'm using vista ultimate x64 but i have some friends that use xp x32 and they have 4gb RAM dual processors and i've tried to tell them that's not good but they just keep useing the xp...

If it works for them, let them be at ease.

what about 6gb of RAM )? and still using xp x32 they lose not me

May 2009 survey by Valve Corporation indicated that 39.9% of gamers are running Windows Vista or Windows 7 beta (46% of which are 64-bit versions)
Windows Vista - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I hear they plan to do away with 32bit after Windows 7.