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qwhen does 64 bit arrive
baker said:You can use 64 bit as soon as you buy the $10,000.00 computer needed to
run it. Does that answer your question? :-(
Jack Meyhoff said:Yes and we all know 3200 bucks is what ever home user (Mum n dad) spends on
a PC in the back room.
Joh N. said:Mike Brannigan [MSFT], after spending 3 minutes figuring out which end of the
pen said:spends
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I never said it was what "Mum n dad" spend - I was just correcting the
statement tat you require hardware costing tens of thousands of dollars to
enter the 64-bit platform playing field.
Actually, you didn't correct him at all. All you did was show *one* price of
*one* 64bit system. Very few, if any (the kind of companies that *need* these
things), companies who will actually *use* these things, will *NOT* buy just
*one*. So yes, the price is still far too steep for most home users, then
they'd have to pay out the butt for the actual apps that would run on these
things. Tens of thousands of dollars was easily within reason.
Joh N.