the bus system is not unlike the roads in your town. 32 means that there are, essentially, 32 lanes of traffic, so, 64 would allow for twice as much traffic. up till recently there were not so many apps for the 64, because 64 bit OS demands a higher level of security and not so many were providing signing certificates, but now that it has been around for a year or two, more and more software vendors are paying for their certificates so that the 64 bit OS will recognize them. having 64 bit chip doesn't mean a thing unless you can access it via a 64 bit OS

A lot of real juicy peripheral hardware does not support the 64 bit environment and windows 64 bit anything does not have drivers for some hardware. I was pissed when I found out a 64 bit OS will not dumb down its drivers to the 32 bit architecture. That means PISS poor legacy support for classic software like games or older hardware or some of the beefy video cards.

More RAM, more compatibility issues, more expensive, some games don't always work on 64X, as with all OS', it requires tinkering as not not drive you crazy. I like Vista 64X and I'm currently using it but XP 64X could do almost the same stuff.

The difference in the case of a friend said the memory is 64 Amabayd know Vista 32-bit programs better than 32-bit Vista does not run one thing that I should know about the Aynast programs in Vista 64 bit and have some limitations Some of them might not work properly in it.

HulloThar,

speaking of ram, there is also something to be aware of when getting our computers up to their optimum personalities and abilities -

Adding ram is good because it give us more ability to use the resources. Resources have to do with overall speed.

The problem in thinking this through correctly comes when someone has a slower computer and hopes that adding ram will make if faster, and to a point this is correct, however, a slow computer chip, or front end bus chipset speed is the delimiter. Adding ram will certain help the pc to perform at it's maximum but it will not really make the pc faster.

When adding ram to a fast pc, now we can begin to see some real ability, however, Window$ does not know what you want to do with your pc, so they turn on everything, every service, every ability &c &c, and this is means that all kind of stuff is running that the user will never never ever use. So these things are running and running and running and, well - If these things are turned off, well, the pc will run faster, of course.

Moreover, a computer hacker doesn't really give any attention to anything that their printer doesn't spit out and say, hey, the robot (we) have searching for vulnerabilities is 'in'. And once they are in, they use these unused resources that YOU are NOT using, so you won't even see them controlling your pc until some future update breaks their injected software, THEN you experience more of a problem than, say, simply a slower pc. Instead, you EXPERIENCE the result of a program that is still running but now it is broken and breaking things.





Point is, more ram is good, but even that is under the umbrella of how many resources (overall computer speed) are available.


AndyBgood,

Hi man. We are only now seeing some of the big guns come out and pay for their certificates, but we can now think that others are to follow. A good site to visit for both audio and textual discourse is http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

Have a great day everyone...

Why not just get Windows 7, it's what XP and VISTA should have been! lol