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[Sasso]

i that that much difference between the vista's? i mean what woudl be the advantage over picking one or the other? am abot to go buy it so would like to know computer is for excel, autocad, CS3 and heavy gaming

 

[AaronW]

I guess you need to make sure your games and apps will work in 64 bit first.

Also, you can only use upto 3gb memory with 32bit so if you want to use more you need to go with 64bit.

 

[Brian Stuart]

As the driver support for 64bit is excellent then as long as you have a 64bit CPU then 64bit Vista is the only logical choice. I see that you use Autocad and CS3 so 4Gb of RAM will help enormously and 64bit will see all of it.

 

[crazyDAJT]

also remember that the memory limit in a 32bit operating system includes your graphics card, so it you get one with 500MB or 1GB thats going to wipe a considerable chunk of the amount of memory you can use for your system.

I'm my eyes its the only way to go these days. the only driver problem i have had with vista or XP 64bit is my plotter at work doesn't have a 64bit driver so i cant print in magenta, yellow or blue (but why would i want to do that anyway??) blacks fine for what i do.

 

[jeffa123]

The only thing that put me off the upgrade to CS3 from CS2 was the fact that it was only 32 bit capable. I don't think it will even work in Vista 64 Bit. Quite honestly I felt that Adobe entered the stoneage when they could not properly make PSE5 compatible with Vista 32bit. Even now I have to unblock the Adobe Downloader and run it from the system notification area after a year. This did not create a lot of incentive. Thus until Adobe get it right I will not buy. I will stick to using my CS2 on XP until a true 64 bit version of CS3 is released.

 

[[DOD]Asprilla]

Also, you can only use upto 3gb memory with 32bit so if you want to use more you need to go with 64bit.

I thought 32bit could access 4gb total system memory so that includes your RAM and any graphic card memory. So if your card is 0.5gb you can only access 3.5gb RAM.