On 12/04/2012 19:31, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
charles wrote:
In article ],
hugh ] wrote:
In message , Mike
Barnes writes
hugh ]:
Anything which relies on 32 bit windows explorer will not run on 64
bit
W7. Unfortunately that includes my mail/usenet agent Turnpike which I
am loath to give up.
That's the one and only reason I've standardised on W7 32-bit.
Fortunately 4 GB is plenty for my (not exactly modest) needs.

It's probably plenty for the vast majority of people, but the "more
is better" brigade are running the show.
I run XP on 2 gb and it's enough most of the time.

It depends on what you are doing. I've got sound files well over 1GB in
length. If I want to edit them it would be a much slower process with
only
2GB memory

that's true but you probably wouldn't choose a legacy 32 bit OS for
handling that sort of data.

I do big graphics sometimes: that's where I run out of RAM.

Yup, I find 32 bit XP is beginning to flag a bit on a 4GB platform in
Photoshop CS5.1

Its about the only time I have felt it would be nice to have 64 bit and
8GB of RAM or more.


--
Cheers,

John.

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