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Yes I am:
Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit
NVIDIA 8800GTS 640MB


But I belive the most 64Bit User will be use Linux 64 Bit. I am right?

Unfortunately I chose 32bit when I installed Vista. Still, it'd be a good excuse to get a new computer for my birthday soon.

I use on one PC:
Windows XP SP3 32-Bit
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit (I am ready )
Ubuntu 8.04 32-Bit

NVIDIA 8600 GT 512 MB Passiv

greetings
Thomas

I am ready, have both Windows XP64, and Vista 64

Windows Vista 64 bit here. Will have Windows 2008 64bit "workstation" in 7 days. I'm all set to go

64bit would be nice, I could detect the other 4gb of memory in my PC again

When my sound card vendor comes out with sound card drivers that kills off some of the new "features" added by vista like some of the other big sound brands have done then I might give it another go.

I'm thinking of getting a BD drive for this PC this year, I'm not sure if that will mean I bump into further vista "features" with hi-def content issues

Xp sp3 still works fine. loosing 4gb of memory is a small price to pay given the sound nightmare vista introduces

The feature I saw in vista that I might like is dynamic folders.

Finally! Everybody has a Jaguar! :roll:

I don't!

...and i have a nice view out of my window(s).

I am ready and waiting...

My workstation is an Intel Duo Core2, a 64 bit dual core processor running Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit. It's a self-built PC. 8 gig RAM, 2TB of drive space, and the motherboard has a native HDMI output in parallel with a VGA output so I can plug it directly into my HDTV at 1080p. Now... if I only knew how to program games. :roll:

With 8 gigs of ram, I have it run VirtualBox with a guest OS of Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit for a PB development and test environment and another VirtualBox with guest OS of Windows XP SP3 32-bit (for Photoshop CS3, InDesign, etc).

well, in the future, you'll know it's close because the windows version will be released!

Not me.

For the time being I'm staying with 32 bit, from what I can tell the only real advantage to going 64 bits is access to more than 4GB of memory and since I don't need any more memory than what I have now (3GB), there's no reason to go 64 bits.

Add to that the relative vacuum of 64 bit software.

Although it would have slowed the adoption of 64 bit Windows, I believe we'd have been better off if Microsoft had designed 64 bit Windows to not be able to run 32 bit software. Then there'd be a real need for 64 bit software. As it is, vendors just make 32 bit versions and ignore 64 bit.

I can personally vauch for that. I have 4.5gb that lie undetected because:

- 64bit XP is driver poor (tried it, my periferals have issues)
- 64bit vista is slower, even optimised for performance with all the bells and whistles turned off. slower to boot, slower to run and has a nightmare bug in the sound "default device" system that pisses many many people off on the vista64 forum who use digital connections to AMPs etc

linux ain't an option, junipers RDP drivers to connect to the company VPN are only for windows. no trendy alternatives allowed

To use 4GB or more memory in Vista your system must meet the following qualifications:

The chipset must support at least 8 GB of address space. Chipsets that have this capability include the following:

• Intel 975X
• Intel P965
• Intel 955X on Socket 775
• Chipsets that support AMD processors that use socket F, socket 940, socket 939, or socket AM2. These chipsets include any AMD socket and CPU combination in which the memory controller resides in the CPU.

• The CPU must support the x64 instruction set. The AMD64 CPU and the Intel EM64T CPU support this instruction set.

• The BIOS must support the memory remapping feature. The memory remapping feature allows for the segment of system memory that was previously overwritten by the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) configuration space to be remapped above the 4 GB address line. This feature must be enabled in the BIOS configuration utility on the computer. View your computer product documentation for instructions that explain how to enable this feature. Many consumer-oriented computers may not support the memory remapping feature. No standard terminology is used in documentation or in BIOS configuration utilities for this feature. Therefore, you may have to read the descriptions of the various BIOS configuration settings that are available to determine whether any of the settings enable the memory remapping feature.

• An x64 (64-bit) version of Windows Vista must be used.

Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us

Just because you install Vista 64 bit, it doesn't mean memory above 4GB will automatically be detected and used, your system also has to meet the qualifications above.

I just started with XP some weeks ago, before that I've used Win2k for around 6 years or so (and before that for a very long time with 3.1 )

It's quite fine to have a stable and fast responding UI - even on a (very) small notebook (I've bought a clone of MSI Wind)...

...and about PureBasic - what is missing and would be better with a 64Bit version? Maybe some brand new integer math functions, like Abs() ?

Michael