Depending upon how much memory is on you video card and the size of various
system BIOS and memory mapped i/o device card buffers, most if not all of the
memory space above 3GB is unavailable for mapping of real memory both for
XP and Vista 32-bit versions. It is the 64-bit versions of Vista on 64-bit
versions of
Intel and AMD processors that removes that restriction. In other words, Vista 32
won't help you on this.
- Dov
From: Rene Stephenson [mailto:rinn...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 12:16 PM
To: Dov Isaacs; Dennis Brunnenmeyer; FrameUsers List
Subject: Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions
Am I correct to understand that anything more than 3GB of RAM is wasted unless
you're running Vista?
Rene L. Stephenson
----- Original Message ----
From: Dov Isaacs <isa...@adobe.com>
The 8710w is a fantastic system. Omit the BlueRay drive and the cost
isn't particularly bad. And if you take care of it and can get four
years of service out of it (typically what I get out of my notebook
systems), the extra cost per day compared to el'cheapo configurations
is really minimum. Oh, BTW, I would not recommend XP on the 8710w
given its fairly "new" peripherals that are not particularly well
supported under Vista. (Also, multiple core / multiple core processors
are better utilized by Vista than Windows XP!)
- Dov
