Upgrading to Win 7 advice needed:32bit or 64bit?

PlacidCasual

PlacidCasual

PlacidCasual

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Hi

I have a laptop with 2.5Gb of Ram and a Intel Core Duo T5300 processor. It has an ATi Radeon 1250 graphics chipset.

Currently the laptop has 32bit Vista installed, I'm planning to do a complete re-install formatting the harddrive as there is software I'd rather the get rid off. This being the case am I better off fitting Win 7 32 or 64 bit? I had planned for 64bit but is it the best choice?

Any advice would be much appreciated.
 
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Usually I'd say 64-bit without even thinking about it, but given it's a laptop, have you worked out if all the device drivers are available for x64?

For instance I've got a Toshiba Portégé M700 tablet, and whilst it will run 64-bit fine, there are no drivers for the inbuilt 3G modem, so I've stuck with 32-bit on that.
 
OP you need to go visit your laptop manufacturer's website and determine if they have Windows 7 64 drivers available. In a lot of cases the Vista drivers will work, though this is never a guarantee!

Assuming no driver issues, there is no real reason to stay with 32 bit.
 
Ok I'm having problems finding drivers that say explicitly 32bit or 64bit which given the existing OS is 32bit suggests they're all 32bit.

I can live with Win7 32bit I probably won't notice the difference but I have a copy of Office 2007 Home and Student with a 3 user licence. Do I install 32bit office on my 64bit Win7 desktop and my soon to be 32bit Win7 laptop or will I be able to load office as 64 and 32 bit under the licence agreement?

Any advice appreciated and thanks to all the previous respondents.
 
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