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fonebone wrote:I believe that is only for Win XP and that is up to 3 gigs. I think Vista can use at least 16gigs. not to mention that it can also use your excess thumb drives as memory if needed.
Nope.. it's a limitation of a 32 bit OS... it can only see 4 gigs before it formats it.. with formatting and such XP gets about 3.5 usable. (that's the only difference between the 32 bit OSes).

63 bit OSes can see that 16 GBs or something else huge.
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fonebone wrote:I believe that is only for Win XP and that is up to 3 gigs. I think Vista can use at least 16gigs. not to mention that it can also use your excess thumb drives as memory if needed.
* 32-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate: 4GB
* 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Basic: 8GB
* 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Premium: 16GB
* 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate: 128GB

Windows XP usage of 4gb memory varies depending on a number of different factors. Some systems see 2.25gb, some see 3gb and some (like mine) see 3.25gb.

I have heard that 32bit Vista may also have the same issue as XP with not quite recognizing the full amount of ram.
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Atelo wrote:For all you Apple fanboys, don't even bother! Charging $1600 for a $700 computer is theft disguised as cool.
Amen brother.

And where is Desari in this discussion? He's a Mac user and I'd love to hear his input.
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adonshae wrote:Amen brother.

And where is Desari in this discussion? He's a Mac user and I'd love to make fun of his input.
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You bloody computer geeks !

computers are for porn and nothing else !
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pezcore wrote:You bloody computer geeks !

computers are for porn and nothing else !
Porn and Music.
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To start, I'm neither a PC or Mac fanboy: I use both and neither platform has been more (or less) problematic then the other for me. I primarily game on my PC and do some audio work (I use Cakewalk Sonar when laying down guitar tracks, overdubs, mixing and such; it sounds and works out much better with my PC with an Audigy2 ZS then it would using my MacBook's internal audio with Apple Logic Studio :P) and do whatever else on my MacBook :). It's rather a routine (and convenient) for me to use operate both machines in that matter.

I will say this though, I'm waiting on the (anticipate) Mac line-up refresh to see what comes out of it to replace my MacBook. My previous Mac (12" aluminum PowerBook G4) served me well for a couple of years until I gave it to my niece for college (and yes, she's in advertising). From my experience with a Mac laptop, I figured I'd just upgrade to a MacBook. So yea, I'll be looking for a replacement for my MacBook as my niece will be getting it (and she'll be handing off her PowerBook G4 to her sister). I'll admit, in all likelihood, I'll be picking up another MacBook (the MBPro aren't worth their value -- of course, I'm sure many of you will claim that my next MacBook won't be either. :( )


I must also stress that I'm neither an AMD nor an Intel / NVIDIA fanboy as I will use either or on any rig I build; but as it stands, I currently utilize an Intel CPU and an ATI GPU (and not because of their whole G92 & G94 chips).


I won't comment on Google, though. They too have served me well with much of my queries.
Atelo wrote:
adonshae wrote:Amen brother.

And where is Desari in this discussion? He's a Mac user and I'd love to make fun of his input.
Fixed!
HAHA I expected that "Fixed!" comment. :P
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fonebone wrote:I believe that is only for Win XP and that is up to 3 gigs. I think Vista can use at least 16gigs. not to mention that it can also use your excess thumb drives as memory if needed.
Nope.. it's a limitation of a 32 bit OS... it can only see 4 gigs before it formats it.. with formatting and such XP gets about 3.5 usable. (that's the only difference between the 32 bit OSes).

63 bit OSes can see that 16 GBs or something else huge.
Apparently 64-bit OSes, in general, can address up to 16 ExaBytes? I'm sure I'm incorrect with the value, but it's huge all right. ;)
[Queue: a correction from Tholia, Junesha and whomever else that definitely knows better then I on that ;) ]
Atelo wrote:I have heard that 32bit Vista may also have the same issue as XP with not quite recognizing the full amount of ram.
Yea, XP32 does have that problem. Indeed it won't recognize the full 4GB of RAM. Depending upon configuration, it'll recognize up to 3.5GB (from what I've seen so far); but I've read some forums where they claim it's been able to go up to 3.75GB.

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pezcore wrote:You bloody computer geeks !

computers are for porn and nothing else !
Porn and Music.
Hehe It's all about the games, movies and music! :P
Ok, at least for me. :D
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Honestly, a whole lot of the "good" things about Macs can be attributed to the fact that they have such a low market share. I don't know the exact numbers anymore but it used to be in the single digits.

This actually has a lot of implications.

It means that, yea, the apple store will be quicker because they deal with a fraction of the volume that Best Buy or even Dell has to deal with.

A big arguement I hear from mac heads is that there's no viruses for macs...

well when there's hardly any macs out there comparitively to pcs, evil virus writers aren't spending much time trying to write virii for macs because it won't do much good.

Anyway, I don't knock on people that use them at home, but in an environment bigger than that they're really not practical. Speaking from experience though, I believe that colleges are by far the biggest purchasers of macs. Take out the college campus purchases and mac sales go down to 1% of market share imo.
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Lol atelo!
Can someone please tell me what the hell is next to the iron?
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