Can you still buy 32bit brand new laptops

smr · 7 Aug 2013 at 17:31

After a couple for a customer as the third party program she uses only works in a 32 bit machine... are they still for sale or second hand ?

jonnyp1993 · 7 Aug 2013 at 17:33

smr said:
After a couple for a customer as the third party program she uses only works in a 32 bit machine... are they still for sale or second hand ?

why dont you buy new laptops, and install windows 7 32bit on them ?

and 32bit programmes will still work on 64bit.

Makhaira · 7 Aug 2013 at 19:32

Aye, there shouldn't be any reason why you can't run her software on a 64 bit machine (might need to tweak a couple of settings, but nothing dramatic).

ShortWarning · 8 Aug 2013 at 09:40

As above but if she is hell bent on having a 32bit operating system then you could just buy a laptop (which will come with a 64bit install), download a 32bit .iso then format and install with the license key supplied.

tom_e · 8 Aug 2013 at 10:10

Or even just run the program in 32bit mode?

nightmare99 · 8 Aug 2013 at 10:15

The OP did not state the programs were 32 bit he stated they would only work on a 32 bit machine so they could be 16 bit dos programs.
You could buy a machine with Windows 7 Pro and run the programs in XP mode (virtual XP machine).

Skyboat · 8 Aug 2013 at 13:36

Surely a VM running inside a modern OS would suffice for this?

K.C. Leblanc · 8 Aug 2013 at 18:18

Skyboat said:
Surely a VM running inside a modern OS would suffice for this?

This,

Or migrating to some more modern software.

Have you actually looked into this issue or are you going on what the client says.

What's the software?

Heliospherez · 9 Aug 2013 at 11:14

Maybe she has more computer knowledge than 99% of the population and realises that XP, NT and 2000 were far superior to the rubbish Microsoft has been churning out over the last 13 years

Roll on the "I hate Win 8" - "I hate Vista" - "I hate the search tool" ......