Non Friday 2010-04-15 Development Update :)

[genbrien]

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

Because not everybody has a 64bit OS?

Yes I know.....
that's that that I dont understand. Why people are still picking 32bit OSes if the 64bit give more thing for the same price ?????
And because there is still 32bit OSes, 64bit is not developping as fast as it should

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by genbrien

Yes I know.....
that's that that I dont understand. Why people are still picking 32bit OSes if the 64bit give more thing for the same price ?????
And because there is still 32bit OSes, 64bit is not developping as fast as it should

Because is we have the OS at home, why would we want to spend extra money on a new one? When I bought my laptop, the 64 bit version was a fair-amount more expensive.

[genbrien]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Because is we have the OS at home, why would we want to spend extra money on a new one? When I bought my laptop, the 64 bit version was a fair-amount more expensive.

I just checked 5mins ago, and 64bit is 3$ more than 32bit......
I'm not saying that you must upgrade to get 64bit, but if you upgrade.... why still chose 32bit.... non sense to me

[Novotny]

It's a fair point though - why buy Windows 7 32bit? I don't know.

[zauii]

Big deal? 64 vs 32 bit performance wise isn't anything to cheer about anyway.

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by zauii

big deal? 64 vs 32 bit performance wise isn't anything to cheer about anyway.

ram?

[zauii]

Originally Posted by TheGrunch

ram?

Sure , yet no game(s) really benefits from 3+ gig ram in any significant way.

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Originally Posted by zauii

Big deal? 64 vs 32 bit performance wise isn't anything to cheer about anyway.

Correct, when it comes to current 32bit applications running on them. When 32bit is done away with and programs and games start coming out in native 64bit there will be a difference. It's the needless hanging on to 32bit OS that is slowing down the 64bit software advancement. I think windows 7 should have been 64bit only. Hopefully the next version of windows will finally kill 32bit.

[AKA_Tenn]

no i think its good to be able to run legacy code, and i hope 50 years from now, we'll still be able to run 8 bit code on whatever (quantum processor) type dealy we're using (assuming i haven't kicked the can by then)... the only thing holding us back (since windows XP 64 and the pentium 4 640) is people actually developing 64-bit appz (in most cases, 32bit is plenty enough, so why make a 64bit version?)

if you can still buy 32-bit processors, not outta some old warehouse, and not second hand, then your wasting your money, nowadays ALL pre-built machines are 64bit capable, and all motherboards/processors are 64 bit capable as well, again assuming their not a half a decade old...

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by genbrien

I just checked 5mins ago, and 64bit is 3$ more than 32bit......
I'm not saying that you must upgrade to get 64bit, but if you upgrade.... why still chose 32bit.... non sense to me

Yes, that is completely true. I wish that had been the same when I got my laptop!