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Feb 02 2008

Is this the year of x64 Windows?

Posted by: Jan Olbrecht in journal

I’ve been using Windows Vista x64 on my new Thinkpad T61 for a little more than a month now. The reason for this is simple: I wanted to have all 4GB of my RAM and only 64bit operating systems can do that for you.

I firmly believe that 2008 will be the year that 64bit Windows finds its breakthrough moment – the reason for this is simple: RAM is c.h.e.a.p.!!

My own tally shows that I get 64bit drivers for all my hardware now and though some of them still seem to need some ironing out I was generally surprised by the stability of the system. Not only me though, a lot of my friends who have the same or similar notebooks all switched to Vista 64…

I think something’s going on here and the mainstream IT press hasn’t quite caught up on it yet. It’ll be interesting to see when that happens.

-Jan

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