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Windows Vista 32bit and RAM

Old Aug 26, 2008 | 12:18 AM
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All that work just for some extra RAM.......tisk, tisk.

You guys honestly have to pay more and upgrade your "version" of Windows Vista to recognize a certain amount of RAM? That's Pathetic! Makes me glad I shot that crap in the head years ago. OSX Leopard FTW!
 
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Old Aug 26, 2008 | 12:38 AM
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All that work just for some extra RAM.......tisk, tisk.

You guys honestly have to pay more and upgrade your "version" of Windows Vista to recognize a certain amount of RAM? That's Pathetic! Makes me glad I shot that crap in the head years ago. OSX Leopard FTW!
as good as Mac is, it still cant do all that a PC can. Mainly because the apps out are for winbloze tho.

I like both, but BSD n *nix beats both as an OS lol.
 
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Old Aug 27, 2008 | 07:05 AM
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I dunno I'm sure theres some you can customize on it. I can get vista for free but I'm so used to xp I'm afraid to try it. Plus the only medium I have to transfer data is a 8GB flash drive.. I mean, it COULD hold all of any important stuff I need but the useless stuff is invaluable :P I can't afford more ram though so I think I'm gonna stick with XP for a while til I buy a new computer then I might try out vista.
 
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Old Aug 27, 2008 | 04:54 PM
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All that work just for some extra RAM.......tisk, tisk.

You guys honestly have to pay more and upgrade your "version" of Windows Vista to recognize a certain amount of RAM? That's Pathetic! Makes me glad I shot that crap in the head years ago. OSX Leopard FTW!


Ummmmmmm..........you dont have to upgrade. You can start with 64-bit version from the start.
 
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Old Aug 27, 2008 | 07:05 PM
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Ummmmmmm..........you dont have to upgrade. You can start with 64-bit version from the start.

^^ Not for the people who didn't know about it, got a 32-bit version.......and THEN found out about the RAM restriction. So for those people (which would be the majority of Windows users) they would have to re-buy the software they have already purchased.......just a different 64-bit version. Pathetic either way you look at it.

OS X Leopard came as a 64-bit OS, with 32-bit driver/application support...........and they only have 1 version of their OS for $130 fully-loaded ($89 for upgrade), not 4 different versions of a option-scattered OS that starts off at $200 bucks........each one with it's own limits and capacities. That to me just screams "suckers".

Now, everyone around here knows I'm a huge Apple fan, but I'm not a fanboy to the point where anything Apple makes is gold and they do no wrong. Apple has it's flaws and bugs too, but nowhere near comparable to Microsoft.
 
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Old Aug 27, 2008 | 07:22 PM
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If you do research people would know that already. and you can get around the 2-3GB limit...it shouldshow like 3-3.5GB but the most it can actually use is 3GB for applications, 2 GB for processes is what I understand....As far as Apple, dont tell a person that doesnt know anything about computers to get one, theres literally no support for them other than contacting apple. The big downgrade was you were limited with the applications, but since you can run parrallel or bootcamp it kind of fixes that problem. I love apple computers, but people complain about change from XP to Vista, people dont like changeb/c they have to learn new stuff...soif they buy an apple they have to learn the OS, which is a great OS...but people are lazy and just complain and then they complain even more when people tell them theres no support and contact Apple. I work in an IT department and we t/s apple computers(but its also just our companies comps), but if someone was to call a helpdesk they get booted to apple 90% of the time.
 
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