(but there are always those pesky Audio and Video drivers that are a pain).Last month I bought a HP HDX18 notebook that only came with Vista 64 Ultimate. Even with the very latest audio and video drivers, Media Player still stutters for several seconds when first used. Amazing, especially since this is supposed to be a multimedia powerhouse.
Tell me one application that is MUST HAVE for the desktop that is 64 bit. Until that time comes where there are more applications that are 64 bit than 32 bit or at the very least there are a few only 64 bit apps I don't think 64 bit has any sort of urgency factor on the desktopI had "fun" even finding x64 Virus scanning, FTP client and transportable volume encryption software (to send encrypted files across the wire.) Looking at Task Manager, most of the video/lightscribe etc software that came with the machine is 32-bit.
I'm looking forward to Windows7 that I'm told has far snappier video performance and better compatibility with apps that predate 64bit.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
