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We made the mistake of installing Windows 7 Premium 64-bit on a workstation with 24GB of RAM but Windows only said 16GB was available! I can see why MS restric
by dave1010uk 13y ago
We made the mistake of installing Windows 7 Premium 64-bit on a workstation with 24GB of RAM but Windows only said 16GB was available!
I can see why MS restrict their products like this so they can artificially price them. But in the end we ditched Windows and just installed Linux.
- nikita2206 13y agoWhy on earth would you install Windows on a workstation machine when you can use Linux (and there's no limitations such as the need to run IIS, etc)?
- venomsnake 13y agoA wild guess could be that the work needed to be done on that station was windows only or they did not had *nix people on board or that they wanted to see if this was enough ram for Crysis ...
- workbench 13y agoWell it wasn't windows only was it because they just installed Linux in the end
- dave1010uk 13y agoThe developer had lots of Windows desktop experience but little Linux desktop experience. We run a mix of Windows, Mac and Linux here, so using Windows shouldn't have been a problem.