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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 16th Apr 2006 13:56
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As my hard drive has developed bad clusters (and will probably start failing soon), I'm thinking of getting X64 - just wondering whether DBPro works with it...

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John Y
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Posted: 16th Apr 2006 14:27
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Yes it works, but a word of advice, check and download the x64 drivers for all of your hardware, you may be in luck and your hardware actually has drivers. But, I don't have that luxury


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Posted: 16th Apr 2006 16:27 Edited at: 16th Apr 2006 16:28
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Foertunately, my laptop has all the 64-bit drivers availiable From networking to the graphics system, its all correct and present.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 16th Apr 2006 16:34
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In theory it should work with all 32 bit apps, if not then some dudes at microsoft have gona a bit brain dead

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John Y
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Posted: 16th Apr 2006 17:53
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Don't forget your printer, and other gadgets.


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Posted: 16th Apr 2006 20:11
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Printer is networked - and rarely used by me anyway.

And I'm selling my X51V, so that wont be a problem

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Posted: 21st Apr 2006 22:40
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For those interested, this is the default x64 screen :



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Posted: 21st Apr 2006 23:16
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yeah it's not really that impressive on the surface... on the plus side it's a tad quicker


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Posted: 21st Apr 2006 23:40
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anyone ever heard of the hack 'fastXP'?

my friend has it and he says his 700 mhz pc performs as fast as a 1.5ghz equivalent.

Dont code slowly be SWIFT about it!
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Posted: 22nd Apr 2006 00:26
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No - haven't heard of that.

The only problem I've had so far is ClearType, Task Switcher & the other Powertools aren't x64 compatiable...

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Posted: 22nd Apr 2006 00:55
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Quote: "Don't forget your printer, and other gadgets."


Old scanners are a problem ... no drivers for x64 ...
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Posted: 22nd Apr 2006 01:30
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Dont have a scanner - sold it years ago...

Just need to install my defragger, VS 2005, DX April 2006 and wait for the Age Of Empires 3 update to complete (my MaxDSL is going at 2Mb, and I cant do any complaining until the end of next week ).

Running the 64-bit version of NOD installed, and all is fine. DBPro works too...

I do encourage everyone to get a 64-bit processor

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Eric T
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Posted: 22nd Apr 2006 01:37
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Yeah, i've been running it for about a year now, its been really nice with all the 64bit software coming out now, everything is blazing fast.

Me and the old man got a 4800+ 64 x2 coming for my studio machine coming in a few days, along with 4gb of ram, a few raptors, you know, the works... gonna run my studio with x64 now since theres a 64bitversion of sonar. Gonna be freakin sweet.

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Posted: 22nd Apr 2006 01:54 Edited at: 22nd Apr 2006 01:55
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Just found the network printer wont install - not that it particularly matters... Visual Studio detects the 64-bit OS, and installs the extra bits... Nifty!

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