Well X-mas is near and I may buy my kid a laptop.

What I need to know is should I buy the 64 bit or the 32 bit.

I see most come with windows 7.

If anyone can help please feel free to respond.

I have the 64-bit version.
The only purpose I have for it is to be able to recognize all my ram. Someone else will have to post with more specific details as I only use it for that purpose.

The RAM recognition above 3.5g is the BIG reason for 64bit.

power processing baby!
I need it to spead up my renders for 3d work...

Go 64. It's the future.

64 Bit all the way.

Processing power
Ram Recognition
Board Architecture
North Bridge 64 Bit > 32 Bit

The only thing I can say negative up till now about 64 Bit is that early adopters kinda got screwed with support for those systems. That is not true so much anymore. Secondly, I personally am a big proponent of "clean" and "constant" power coming in off the rails of the power supply. This is more important in a 64 Bit machine over a 32 Bit machine. A marginal power supply is not a deal breaker, but like I said me personally, am willing to spend up to get the more robust configuration.

I have a quad core with 8gb ram using Vista. I run two clients of Darkfall, Vent, Windows Media Player and usually Firefox on it at 32% CPU usage and 40% ram usage. I could only be doing this on a 64bit.

GET 64 BIT!!!!!

Ok

Thanks for the response.


Now I know why that sig made me crazy now that I took the time to look at her face. The girl in the pink looks like a girl I dated in the 80's.

I doubt she looks that way now...

its hard as hell to look at her face... sooo distracting

Look out! Ltima is incoming!

Well I dont know what she looks like now but she is in my spank bank so I dont really want to know.