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Upgrading to 64-bit Win 7 Pro from 32-bit Vista Home Premium?
Hi all!
***First up, mods - if this is in the wrong sub-forum, please move! I wasn't sure the best place to post up ***
Admittedly I feel a little late to the party with Windows 7 (what with 8 being on the horizon) but after several years (!) of plugging away with Vista Home Premium on my laptop (used every day for work), I'm at the point where I need to update it.
Don't have the money to replace it outright, and it's also recently had a new HDD and RAM upgrade, so I'm exploring the possibility of finally upgrading to Win 7 (particularly seeing as mainstream support of Vista has now finished).
From what I understand, a clean install of Win 7 is probably better than an update over Vista (and I am happy to do a clean install as I have all programs and everything backed up), but the one thing I am unsure of is whether I can jump to 64-bit Win 7 Professional with the hardware specs of my machine.
The laptop is an Acer 5103WLMi with the following spec (from System Information):
Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-52, 1600 MHz, 2 Cores, 2 Logical Processors
BIOS: Acer V2.70, 07/12/2006
The Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor report seems to indicate that upgrading to 64-bit is possible on a custom install, but the IT tech I spoke to at work says that because System Information lists the System Type as 'X86-based PC' that it can only use a 32-bit version of Windows. Is that correct?
Last edited by BiddlyWiddly; 05 Jul 2012 at 08:39.