32 or 64 bit?????

[Guest]

I'm currently a XP Professional user that will be upgrading to Vista very
soon. I am in the corporate presentation business and cannot afford to have
my system slowed or buggy .... Is there any reason I should NOT get the 64
bit version of Vista????

 

[Saucy]

I'm currently a XP Professional user that will be upgrading to Vista very
soon. I am in the corporate presentation business and cannot afford to
have
my system slowed or buggy .... Is there any reason I should NOT get the 64
bit version of Vista????

Yes. As shinny and wonderful as the 64-bit version is, it will have more
compaibility issues for the time being. I would wait a while. Besides,
unless you are running more than 4GB of RAM you do not get much advantage
over 32-bits (32-bits can address 4GB of RAM all told). Sure some things are
a bit faster with 64 .. some are same or slower .. but IMHO [which is not
the most popular one these days on this issue] there's no real reason to run
64-bits at this time.

Saucy

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

There is no upgrade path from a 32-bit version of
Windows XP Professional to a 64-bit version of
Windows Vista. If you wish to actually "upgrade",
then the standard 32-bit version of Windows Ultimate
or Business edition would be your best choice.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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I'm currently a XP Professional user that will be upgrading to Vista very
soon. I am in the corporate presentation business and cannot afford to have
my system slowed or buggy .... Is there any reason I should NOT get the 64
bit version of Vista????

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Let's see ... no real advantage to running 64-bit Windows unless you need
the 64-bit support or more than 4gb of memory, lack of drivers, lack of
software ... yep, plenty of reasons not to run 64-bit Vista.

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[Xenomorph]

Is it that hard for people to Google things?

Do you have a real reason to go 64-bit?

Do you really have 4 gigs of RAM or more?

If not, why bother with the 64-bit version?

 

[Ken Blake]

I'm currently a XP Professional user that will be upgrading to Vista very
soon. I am in the corporate presentation business and cannot afford to
have
my system slowed or buggy .... Is there any reason I should NOT get the 64
bit version of Vista????

Yes. There are three reasons:

1. You can *not* upgrade to it from XP. Clean installation only.

2. You may have trouble getting drivers for all your hardware

3. Since there are very few 64-bit applications yet, there is almost no
advantage to using it.

Why do you want to upgrade to Vista at all? Be aware that any tome you
change to a new operating system, you run the risk of problems, learning
curve issues, etc. If you can not risk these issues, stay with whatever you
have, unless you *need* to change.