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Good!
Very happy to see 64 bit increasing.
People don't know what your missing with crappy 32bit lol.
Anand/DailyTech - Majority of 7 Installs to be 64 bit
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I have to ask myself, is it the cheap ram, or the demanding video games, video task and all of the other demanding functions we perform on our computers now. The price of ram is nothing comparied to what we spend on cpu's, motherboard, and lcd monitors.
Just my thoughts, what's yours?
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I agree with that, but on already built systems, where you've already spent from 500-1000$, including CPU, motherboard, monitor etc, when RAM used to cost 100$ / Gig it would be an extra cost to spend another 300$ to go from 1G to 4G. Now you can get 1GB with 12$.
They might have a point.
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Posts : 1,003 Win7 Ultimate x64 on Desktop / Win7 Ultimate x86 on laptop / Win7 x86 Starter on Netbook
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After a disaster with Windows7 64bit, which required unplugging my hard drives to boot from a DVD, I'll wait for the promised "full support".
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Now if you're buying DDR3 for an i7 system that's a different story! I just paid $180 for 6 GB!
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Anand/DailyTech - Majority of 7 Installs to be 64 bit
Posted: 23 Jan 2009
DailyTech - Majority of Windows 7 Installations Will Be 64-bit
Microsoft Says Tipping Point Already Reached
According to a source inside Microsoft, over 25 percent of Vista installations in the US at the end of last year were 64-bit. There were several major drivers for the switch to 64-bit, most related to cheap DDR2 DRAM.
Jon DeVaan, Senior Vice-President of the Windows Core Operating System Division, agrees. "From our point of view we believe that we have accomplished the tipping point in terms of 64-bit adoption. Now, this happened to a large degree because memory prices are coming down, and another dynamic that we've seen in the United States is that the retail channel is looking to use RAM upgrades as a way to boost margin. So what that means is that 64-bit machine run rate is increasing rapidly, and that means our ability to support those 64-bit machines fully in the broad ecosystem is a really important thing."
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