>>>>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...

Speaking of memory capacities... It's amusing to watch early episodes of "Star Trek:The Next Generation" and hear them talk about "kiloquads" of memory (and it seems to be an awful lot of capacity -- in the episode "11001001" some aliens "borrow" the Enterprise so that they can use its computers as backup storage for their computer system on their planet -- which was going to be kocked out by an electromagnetic pulse from a nearby supernova)... A number of years later, by the time "Star Trek: Deep Space 9" and "Star Trek: Voyager" start, common computer capacities are quoted to be "gigaquads". By the end of the run of "Star Trek: Voyager" they're talking about "billions of teraquads" (which brings up the question -- how did they manage to upgrade the ship's computers anyway? It's not as if they could've gone to nearest starbase for upgrade).