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When I'm 64-bit
BillieTheBot
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Play on words with the Beatles' song :-)
Anyway techie guys, I wonder if any of you can please weigh up the pros and cons for 32-bit and 64-bit? After my main computer died in a fire last week (brand new too!), I'm looking to go Windows 7 in the New Year with a new desktop computer. I play World of Warcraft which shouldn't be a problem regardless to which 'bit' I choose but what about Age of Empires II which came out in late 1999? I'm still madly keen on Age of Empires II, even more so than AOEIII. The main thing that my OS has got to support is portable apps - Firefox, Thunderbird, Winamp, 7zip, Openoffice.org and suchlike. If I was to go 64-bit, would I have to re-download the apps? Oh, and also please, *perlease* - my beloved Paintshop Pro 7! My eyesight's too bad for Photoshop and I won't take any Corel conversions of PSP m'dear :-)
Thanks!
Anyway techie guys, I wonder if any of you can please weigh up the pros and cons for 32-bit and 64-bit? After my main computer died in a fire last week (brand new too!), I'm looking to go Windows 7 in the New Year with a new desktop computer. I play World of Warcraft which shouldn't be a problem regardless to which 'bit' I choose but what about Age of Empires II which came out in late 1999? I'm still madly keen on Age of Empires II, even more so than AOEIII. The main thing that my OS has got to support is portable apps - Firefox, Thunderbird, Winamp, 7zip, Openoffice.org and suchlike. If I was to go 64-bit, would I have to re-download the apps? Oh, and also please, *perlease* - my beloved Paintshop Pro 7! My eyesight's too bad for Photoshop and I won't take any Corel conversions of PSP m'dear :-)
Thanks!
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But I see no point in you getting 64bit unless you have 64bit hardware or over 3GB of RAM. Otherwise, no point upgrading unless your computer can go past 4GB of RAM and you actually plan on upgrading it. 64bit is fine though. It's just most programs aren't written to take full use of 64bit. Which you would think they would be these days when computers are slowly reaching the maximum for 32bit in terms of RAM.
I use 32bit on my desktop even though it can utilize 64bit (AMD hardware). I still don't like 64bit fully though, as said you still have some glitches with some things. But not many.
Don't waste your money on Ultimate, it's only useful if you're a business user.