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Default Windows 7 32 or 64 bit ?

On 12/04/2012 21:28, dennis@home wrote:


"charles" wrote in message
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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


Why?
Surely you want to read it from a file, process that bit and write it back.
The disk would be the limiting factor, it certainly can be for video
processing.


I think you just answered your own question... the disk would be a
limiting factor, and massively slower than carrying operations out on
the whole file in ram. Especially if you need several operations in
sequence.

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Cheers,

John.

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