[Neuromancer]

Originally Posted by sumonpathak

erm....x64...even with people having 2gb's of ram?
plz explain....

64bit is a more efficient code base than x86 with x64 extended cpus.

Honestly in the next couple of generations of windows I expect we will see a move to true 64bit computing where you will need a software emulation of x86 instructions. that would be sweet and really make a nice performance increase

[Cyberjackal]

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

64bit is a more efficient code base than x86 with x64 extended cpus.

Honestly in the next couple of generations of windows I expect we will see a move to true 64bit computing where you will need a software emulation of x86 instructions. that would be sweet and really make a nice performance increase

Sure would be nice

Whatever you get, make sure you get a more modern x64 OS. WinXP x64 is buggy as hell due to lack of driver support. That's what I was using before I made the jump to Vista Ultimate x64 about 2-3 years ago. When using XP x64 I was so tempted to just dump half my ram & go back to 32-bit.
And I'd definitely go 7 over Vista any day