Ok, but by your own words, "people who build their own computers" and in *** same line "Hassle when they run into problems."
For a long time now, XP64 has not had any issues at all, the very early first few months, there was issues with drivers sure there was, but this is almost all sorted save for a few things ( In comparison with just how much hardware there is, almost all new hardware is supported )
You are also saying the same thing about Vista ?
WHAT?
In the quote I highlighted in the previous post, look at what you said... By your own words you are saying that people are going to build a PC and run into trouble if they run a 64Bit OS?
Both 32 and 64 Bit vistas have some issues?
All CPus being released these days are all 64Bit save for a few Celerons, and even then, I cannot think of a single place that is still selling them OTTOMH?
So, to limit the progress of computing purely because some people want to stick with using older hardware, is simply stupid.
Running a 64Bit CPU on a 32Bit OS is completely bypassing the whole reason of developing the 64Bit OS in the first place. If they had stayed with 16Bit when we moved to 32Bit, a few years back, we would all still be running DOS FFS ( Was it not Win3.1 that gave us 32Bit support first? )
Now you are saying that 64bit is a waste of time.
I have been running XP64 for over 2 years now, and it has proved itself to be far superior in most ways to XP32. So much so in fact, that my LAN PCs are all moving over to it and at this time, there is only 2 PCs that are still using 32 Bit XP, and one using Win2K
None of my LAN PCs have more than 2GB in fact most have only 1GB so the mov eto 64Bit has had nothign to do with RAM at all... It has more to do with better smoother gaming and a faster experience all round than standard XP.
At this moment in time, I have one PC with 64Bit and one with 32Bit... Both are the very same Ultimate, and both are unactivated, but they both run the same stuff at about the same speed ( Not benched them ) and they are both running 100% spot on and both have had no issues whatsoever, so why say the 64Bit is a waste of time?