How Much Memory Can Vista See?

Muffin` · 26 Apr 2008 at 11:08

Tute said:
Sorry but you can argue all you like - Vista 32 bit is pointless

No it's not, not everything is compatible with 64bit both hardware and software, remember the real money is made in business and a lot of people still have P4's never mind certain expensive hardware like site laser scanners.

steve258 said:
Depends on your hardware, my previous P5N-E will see 3.5Gb but the P5B will only see 2.93Gb in 32bit.

Hardware limitations, not Vistas.

Tute · 26 Apr 2008 at 11:18

Muffin` said:
No it's not, not everything is compatible with 64bit both hardware and software, remember the real money is made in business and a lot of people still have P4's never mind certain expensive hardware like site laser scanners.

And these are the people who will stick with XP.

Although I didn't know about the Core Duos that didn't have EM64T - what on earth was the point of leaving that out? :confused:

NathanE · 26 Apr 2008 at 11:56

Tute said:
And these are the people who will stick with XP.

Although I didn't know about the Core Duos that didn't have EM64T - what on earth was the point of leaving that out?

It was when Intel was caught with its pants down by AMD. It was the "Yonah" chips... they were branded as "Core Duo" but not "Core 2 Duo". They were basically a dual core Pentium 3/M and were very very fast. Then Core 2 Duu (Conroe) came along which enhanced the Yonah with EM64T and lots of core logic tweaks.

nightmare99 · 26 Apr 2008 at 12:48

Yeah Intel were so slow adding EMT64 to thier mobile chips, if not for these I think it would have been perfectly fine for MS not to bother with a 32bit vista.

whiskycycle · 26 Apr 2008 at 15:42

Vicar said:
Take that up with the Makers of the Units, not Vista's fault (tongue in cheek) BTW interesting that you take you bloods so seriously, I havent taken a blood sugar level in over 4 years, just interested you could do that anyway, ho hum... hope me doc doesnt read these forums

I have taken it up with the manufacturer, who have responded with their usual response.... which is actually that they haven't responded yet! I haven't given up though, as although I'm a service user, I'm also on the other side and work for the local NHS Primary Care Trust and even though it's a small thing (the cable driver), it's something that patients in our area _might_ also use and I'd like to think I've done my part.

As regards bloods, I was undiagnosed for a few years and it took good couple of years to get everything on kilter again. Can generally tell when things are up or down too much, but having the meter and the software to show historical was pretty good - graph things against when I'd munched too much carb!

Muffin` · 26 Apr 2008 at 18:03

Tute said:
And these are the people who will stick with XP.

Why? If the business upgrades to Vista across the board when they have the XP licenses bought out why would they then get another deal to keep XP? Vista 32 bit will fill this hole, it's all about money, and Microsoft does that best.

Caged · 26 Apr 2008 at 18:18

That doesn't make much sense, what do you mean by having the XP licenses bought out? Businesses are still running on XP not due to not having the money, but due to the need to test every single corporate application to ensure it will still work on Vista.

Green-Peace · 26 Apr 2008 at 18:30

32-Bit OS = 232 approx 4Gb memory MAX
64-Bit OS = 264 approx 16 exabytes of RAM (17.2 billion gigabytes :eek:

in theory

)

Muffin` · 26 Apr 2008 at 19:48

Caged said:
That doesn't make much sense, what do you mean by having the XP licenses bought out?

It depends how the company pays for its licenses or if they just use the OEM thats comes with the base unit. I was talking specifically about the network licenses and resellers will 'buy you out' of your remaning XP license to then get the deal of moving to Vista.

Caged · 26 Apr 2008 at 20:59

undergroove said:
Serial>USB transfer cable for my diabetes blood glucose meter. No x64 driver available for it yet.

Bit of a sod really, as it was useful being able to give my quack a spanky looking graph of how well I was doing over the last year! No way to get the historical data off now until a driver's released or a new x64 compatible transfer cable's released (neither of which seem likely right now).

Coming (slightl) back on topic though: definitely see the difference from 2gb to 4gb (and more) on Vista 64. Makes it an absolute pleasure to use really.

If you're just after a serial to USB adaptor http://www.keyspan.com/products/usa19hs/homepage.spml