[DUG] to Vista 64bit or not?

[Jolyon Smith]

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-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at 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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