It's also a little faster. >From what I've read performance is generally 3 to 10% better in 64 bit native >operation. That's a pretty small number though, probably not detectable by >humans in most cases. Shows up in bench marks though.
On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Yeah, if your hardware is 64bit capable, then you can easily run a 32 bit > system as well. > The laptop I’m using to type this, is running win 7 64bit, but came out with > vista 32bit on it. > > My mac book pro has a vm of windows 7 64 bit and that’s working in fusion > 3.1. > > My choice to run 64 bit os as it uses the full ram quota therefore should be > more stable and more effisciant. > > Whetehr or not that’s true, I couldn’t say. But it’s really good to work with. > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LaMcAs > Sent: Sunday, 24 October 2010 10:37 a.m. > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: 64 bit or 32 bit Mac bootstrapped with W7 > > Hello list > > This is more for a friend but also for clarification. > > She has a Mac Book with 8gb RAM and has W7 Boot Strapped on it. > > So what bit is the Apple Motherboard 32 bit or 64 bit? > > I would hope that as it has 8gb Ram it would be 64 bit. > > She seems to think she is running W7 H P 32 bit – surely if this is a 64-bit > motherboard it wont allow her to run W7 32-bit? > > I’m not clued up on the Mac at all so asking for clarification on all this, > does what I’m suggesting make sense? > > Thanks in advance for your input > > > HTH > > Larry & Elliot GD > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
