Re: ADT Pro With Windows 7 (64-Bit)

[larwe <zwsdotcom@gmail.com>]

On Jun 13, 6:40 pm, nyder <nyder...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > But there is no real justification for 64-bit mode in any likely
> > PC application, and so you are choosing to be an early adopter
>
> 64bit isn't new.   So NO one is an early adopter by using a 64bit
> windows OS.

Anyone who is using a niche/minority platform is an early adopter,
regardless of how long the platform has been available. Sure, 64-bit
OSes and even 64-bit Windows versions have been available for a long
time, but precious few people are using them for general computing.

There are also specific annoyances with the 64-bit Windows versions,
such as not being able to load unsigned device drivers (this is my
major grievance, actually - the work I do requires me to use all sorts
of development hardware with device drivers that generally have very
poor support).

> versions of windows for quiet awhile now.  Which I am happily running.
> (considering I have 6gb of ram in 1 machine, and 12gb in the other).

And you don't in fact need a 64-bit OS to support that. You only need
a 64-bit OS if you want each process to access an address space >4GB
efficiently.

> Granted your suggestion about the VirtualBox is spot on.

Actually that was my suggestion, but I had to jump in on Michael's
side anyway because though you might take issue with the way he
phrased it, he's essentially right - vanishingly few PC applications
actually benefit from 64-bit support, and the average user who goes
from 32 to 64-bit versions of the same OS will see no change except
for the OS requiring a bigger RAM footprint, and a large number of
application and driver incompatibility issues.

Heck, few PC applications today even really take advantage of
multicores - it just so happens that synergistically, having multiple
cores allows separate processes to use the machine more efficiently.
There's no such happy accident with a 64-bit OS, and no reason to
upgrade unless you have a program that needs to random-access huge
datasets.