Vista 64bits or Vista 32bits, why should I pick 64?

[A.T]

Hi everybody, I plan on buying a new HP laptop with 2GB Ram, intel Core 2 DUo and Geforce go 7200.. should it be enough to handle the 64 bit version of vista?
Also, I reading that the 64 version is very restrict in avaliable software.
So what are the advantages and disadvantages of having a 64 bits version? Do u recommend it?

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[Mike Brannigan]

Hi everybody, I plan on buying a new HP laptop with 2GB Ram, intel
Core 2 DUo and Geforce go 7200.. should it be enough to handle the
64 bit version of vista?
Also, I reading that the 64 version is very restrict in avaliable
software.
So what are the advantages and disadvantages of having a 64 bits
version? Do u recommend it?

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Please see all the other discussions in this newsgroup on this topic
that completely answer your question.

In a nut shell - unless you have native x64 applications and can
guarantee that you can get x64 drivers for all your hardware then
there is no point in you going x64 now.
Until more apps that you want to use go x64, there will be no
discernable benefit to you as an average user.

 

[Bryan Foster]

The real benefit of X64 is RAM, 32bit only uses 3.5gb of RAM, Vista Ultimate
64 uses any amount of RAM you can throw at it(there is a limit). There are
some software limitations, not many, all of the drivers you can get in 32
and 64 bit, but unless you plan on using 4gig plus of RAM, I would stick
with 32 bit.

 

[Tom Gerling]

A recommendation for either version of Vista, be it Home or Ultimate, 32 or
64 bit, will be impossible if you do not describe your usage scenario.
Explain what you try to do. Maybe XP is what you should stick with for now,
esp. if this is a production machine.

 

[jim]

None of the vistaboy nerds in here thought of telling you that
you can get a 64bit cpu and install a 32 version of vista now...
But they are not very bright ... they like vista, how could they be? lol

with this scenario your machine gives you more choices later on
and at the same time you have the maximum compatibility with 32 bit.

so 64 bit hardware
32 bit OS

 

[BSchnur]

And note, not many notebooks yet support more than 2G of RAM. At some
point they will -- though I really doubt we'll see notebooks supporting
more than 4G of RAM into next year.

 

[Rock]

The real benefit of X64 is RAM, 32bit only uses 3.5gb of RAM, Vista
Ultimate 64 uses any amount of RAM you can throw at it(there is a limit).
There are some software limitations, not many, all of the drivers you can
get in 32 and 64 bit, but unless you plan on using 4gig plus of RAM, I
would stick with 32 bit.

All 4GB are used. Just that some of it is reserved by the OS, and is not
seen by the user, but it is being used.

 

[Scott]

None of the vistaboy nerds in here thought of telling you that
you can get a 64bit cpu and install a 32 version of vista now...
But they are not very bright ... they like vista, how could they be? lol

with this scenario your machine gives you more choices later on
and at the same time you have the maximum compatibility with 32 bit.

so 64 bit hardware
32 bit OS

Actually, they did. Perhaps you need a better news server or just be
more observant.