On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 03:24:30PM -0700, Bino Gopal wrote:
>
> Hey guys, we have a site volume license for Windows-I might not be being
> precise about this as I'm not sure, but I work at Citrix Systems, Inc. and
> we're a pretty close Microsoft partner and so get licenses for a lot of MS
> software so I think that's what it is (in case it matters). For example, I
> have to authenticate to the KMS server using slmgr.vbs from my laptop, and
> have been having issues reaching it and just got it figured out recently!
>
> Anyway, I want to install Win7 Enterprise (that's what we get; basically
> Ultimate minus the games right?) on my somewhat new laptop and was wondering
> whether I wanted the 32bit or 64-bit version... I know you get the full
> support of the 4GB of RAM on the 64-bit version (well, that you can actually
> address/use over 3GB) and btw I only have 4GB on this laptop...
>
> But are there any other reasons to go 64-bit? Or are there reasons not to go
> 64-bit still, like app/program compatability/issues? I'm not going to be
> playing many games on it (though I might install one or two simpler ones for
> travel), but that's not a main concern for me...
1) You can use all 4G
2) Speed. Even though you might not need 64 bit for memory reasons, a lot of
applications that are 64 bit will run faster. This includes
the OS itself too.
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Bryan G. Seitz
