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Really old news, sensationalist headline for a crappy biased article. Microsoft have been moving forward towards 64-bit for a while, although they arguably shou
by halo 18y ago
Really old news, sensationalist headline for a crappy biased article. Microsoft have been moving forward towards 64-bit for a while, although they arguably should offer 64-bit as default on new builds, and a large proportion of people run 64-bit Linux.
Apple offered upgrades to 4gb of memory without explaining the disadvantages and Mac OS X Tiger showed the amount of physical memory rather than the amount addressable - http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=364707 http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=364707 - why is it a "swindle" when Dell do it but not when Apple do it?
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoActually, a tiny proportion of people run 64-bit Linux.
- litewulf 18y agoI'd actually say its easier to run 64-bit Vista than Linux due to the fact that people often ship binaries for Windows that seem to work whereas the SOs in Linux leave you with a mixed-mode install. Sigh.
- thwarted 18y agoThe biggest problem I ran into with this was that earlier versions of package managers didn't handle multiple arches installed on the same system very well (claims of package conflicts due to the names being the same, things like that). That seems to have been fixed or is being worked on.
- litewulf 18y agoMy honest response is I don't know what the current state of the world is like in 64bit land. My one experience was deeply frightening (what do you mean I can't listen to music without having to maintain a 32bit userland?)
- DabAsteroid 18y agoMicrosoft ... should offer 64-bit as default on new builds Dragon NaturallySpeaking -- even the just-released v.10 -- only runs on 32-bit Windows. http://www.google.com/search?q=naturallyspeaking+32+64+windows http://www.google.com/search?q=naturallyspeaking+32+64+windo...