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Geek Culture / Is it Worth Getting Vista Business 64 bit?

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Jeff032
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Posted: 6th Sep 2007 20:23 Edited at: 27th Oct 2007 23:30
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I'm currently running Vista Home Premium 32 bit on my computer.

I was wondering if there was any point in installing Vista Business 64 bit on it instead; I can get it for free.

What advantages would it have and would it possibly cause problems with any of the software that I am currently running?

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bitJericho
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Posted: 6th Sep 2007 20:40 Edited at: 6th Sep 2007 21:07
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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I would go with Ultimate, personally. It has tonnes more features than the Business edition, and unless you have more than a total 4gb of system memory, you probably won't be able to tell the difference. (Unsure about this, confirm anyone?)


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Quote: "I would go with Ultimate, personally. It has tonnes more features than the Business edition, and unless you have more than a total 4gb of system memory, you probably won't be able to tell the difference. (Unsure about this, confirm anyone?)"


I've never really had a problem using any 32 bit apps in ultimate 64, so I would recommend getting 64bit vista if you can, supposedly it'll be faster.


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Jeff032
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Unfortunately, I can only get the business version for free, not the ultimate.

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Aaron Miller
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As I understand it, 64-bit is faster... Plus you get 64-bit apps. And as for the versions of Vista, besides the Aero interface on everything but Home Basic, I think the apps might still work in Home Premium/Business if you just get them from MS.


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Raven
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The Ultimate Edition only have a few extras that honestly I doubt many will use. So Business should be fine for most people, although personally I'd get the retail version so you have the choice of 32-bit or 64-bit.

As there are some apps that don't run in 64-bit mode, then again there seem to be more than don't run in 32-bit but run in 32-bit emulated.

On the flip-side of this however is that drivers are generally less supported on 64-bit Windows. tbh there isn't really any benefit from being on either one over the other. get whatever you feel like getting.

if Windows 64-bit actually was as big a leap as Windows 95 was to Windows 3.1x then I'd probably not be using 32-bit but as some apps don't like 64-bit mode I'm sticking with 32bit for now.

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I've got Vista 64, and my expensive computer is now an expensive word processor. It won't run any old 16-bit programs written either for windows or DOS. For example, my very expensive copy of SPSS ver 11 reports it will not work. SAS 32 won't even try to install. Turbo Pascal 7... forget it. Some things will work in DosBox 0.71. I'd have stayed with XP if HP had a proper warning about Vista on their website.

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