>>>>wow, I guess I need to work overtime to start saving for this type of laptop! :). What would be the advantages of using the 64 bit OS?
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>>>>Thanks.
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>>>32 bit can only address 3gig ram.... 64 bit basically unlimited
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>>At least that's what it seems to be like *now*. Back when 32-bit was introduced, 4GB limit seemed essentially unlimited.
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>>It's a weird feeling when you look at a cell phone today and realize that you've probably got more computing capacity in your hand than what you had sitting on your desk only 20 years ago...
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>even only a dozen years ago - Win98 was current for all not already on to NT.
>A PC had 64 or 128 MB, as W98 would run into problems around 750 MB in the next century...

No matter how much memory we have, Microsoft always seems to rise to the challenge ;-)

I was telling someone the other day about IBM mainframe hard drives circa 1980. They were the size of a washing machine, cost tens of thousands of dollars, and had a capacity of about 50 MB. And they needed to be in a temperature controlled room.

Don't even get me started about punch card decks. If you put one of those old time programmers in front of VS 2010 and SQL Server they would think they had died and gone to heaven.