Guest Arny Krueger Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 Re: WinXP 32 or 64 with Adobe and other gfx software? "Liam" <news@celticbear.com> wrote in message news:eb8d2262-9bc7-4b11-8842-511c4db85819@i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com > As I understand, XP 32bit doesn't handle 4GB RAM very > well (or at all). It's only partially a software or XP problem, as hardware (mainly the motherboard) determines how efficiently > 3 GB of RAM is used. There is a 64 bit version of XP. I've seen systems that exploit up to 3.6 GB of the installed 4 GB of RAM. While any loss represents less than ideal operation, losing only 10% is pretty easy to excuse. > But I also understand if we use XP 64 > bit we'd have to get whole new software for the OS. Worse yet, there are still driver and application program issues. A lot of software is still 32 bit, and is therefore stuck with many if not all of the limitations of the 32 bit environment. A 32 bit program running on a machine running in 64 bit mode and OS is running in some sort of simulation mode. There are reports that the simulations are not always perfect. I see two indicators for moving to a true 64 bit OS: (1) Availability of 64 bit application programs like Premiere. (2) Widespread use of say 8 GB of RAM or more. Right now most people are just moving to 4 GB. In a couple of years, there will be a lot more interest in running 8 GB.
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