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General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: Admin on July 24, 2009, 09:45:25 AM
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Looking at this Dell laptop with this OS:
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1 32 Bit Windows 7 Upgrade Eligible
which has this T6500 64-bit processor:
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=39311&code=t6500
So I don't get it . . . will the OS entirely pretend that the chip is 32-bit, or does Dell have a typo?
(I want 100% 32-bit compatibility, no virtual machines, no dos boxes, no hacks, no dual boots)
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No problem. x86-64 uses a superset of the x86 instruction set. Therefore they can run x86 (32bits) application in native.
Chelmi.
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Yea, just found this:
http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/578398-using-64-bit-processor-32-a.html
(I should have searched longer than just 10 minutes before posting)
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sorry if i'm off on a tangent here. I'm also looking at getting a new Dell precision laptop and was wondering if getting the Windows 7 64x edition being that I do a lot of complex assemblies in SolidWorks. After looking at the compatiablity it looks like there are some issues with SW and windows 7 32x but what about 64x? I know Solidworks didn't come out with a vista friendly software for a good while after vista was released. I really don't want to wait that long :P
Bane
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Most companies wait for about a year or so before 'upgrading' to the next Windows OS, mostly to wait for all the bugs to be worked out of it first. I didn't even start using XP until 2006. You can no doubt expect quite a lot of software to no longer work in Windows 7, and especially 64-bit.
If you have 4GB of RAM or less, there is zero advantage to having 64-bit. Although I've heard 64-bit processors can multitask better than 32-bit, even with a 32-bit OS (not sure if thats true, just what I've heard).
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If you have 4gb of ram there is an advantage... you actually get to use the whole 4 GB. If you have vista 32 bit (like I do, on my macbook pro ;)) and 4gb of ram, vista won't use it all. It also depends on your video ram. I have a 512mb video card too, so that cuts down my ram so that I actually only have 2.8 or so gb available.
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Ok so I have to ask, why have vista on a mac?? We have a bunch of macs at school and they all have vista on them because there are some programs that wont run on a mac, mainly one of the instructors wrote a virtual java simple computer that wont run on mac. But then it hardly runs on vista but that's another story. I have heard taht vista actually runs better on a mac than a pc because macs are all unix based machines.
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I have heard taht vista actually runs better on a mac than a pc because macs are all unix based machines.
The Mac operating System is based on unix core, if you're running Vista on it, you lose the features of the *nix ;)