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qwhen does 64 bit arrive

 

[Will Denny]

It's available now, if you can afford it.

Will

qwhen does 64 bit arrive

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

We have already released Windows XP 64-bit Edition Version 2003
see
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/


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[baker]

You can use 64 bit as soon as you buy the $10,000.00 computer needed to
run it. Does that answer your question? :-(

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

You can use 64 bit as soon as you buy the $10,000.00 computer needed to
run it. Does that answer your question? :-(

Baker,

A Intel Itanium II based system including Windows XP 64-bit Edition Version
2003 is available for as little as $3200.
see
http://www.hp.com/workstations/itanium/

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[Will Denny]

Hi

Where did you get $10,000.00 from - that would equate to about £6535?

Will

 

[Jack Meyhoff]

Yes and we all know 3200 bucks is what ever home user (Mum n dad) spends on
a PC in the back room.

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

Yes and we all know 3200 bucks is what ever home user (Mum n dad) spends on
a PC in the back room.

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.


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[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

John,


Bakers original post

"You can use 64 bit as soon as you buy the $10,000.00 computer needed to
run it. "

My response - you only need a system shipped from HP costing a third of
that.
Baker and others have posted to many of the questioners about 64bit or 32bit
that you need hardware costing $10,000 plus to run Windows XP 64-bit Edition
Version 2003 - this not correct.
While $3200 is still as considerable amount of money for a PC - it is not an
unreasonable amount for a 64-bit workstation and the prices continue to
fall.

So I in fact did correct the posters erroneous impression that you need a
tens of thousands of dollars system to gain entry to 64-bit computing with a
Microsoft OS.

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Mike Brannigan [MSFT], after spending 3 minutes figuring out which end of the

spends
on

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.