On 03/05/2015 20:14, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 03/05/15 17:33, Dennis@home wrote:
On 03/05/2015 17:07, tony sayer wrote:
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Dennis@home scribeth thus
On 03/05/2015 14:49, tony sayer wrote:
In article , Bod
scribeth thus
On 03/05/2015 13:30, tony sayer wrote:
In just the five or so years that I have been using Linux, I
have seen a
huge improvement in the way it recognises stuff, including the
inbuilt
NVIDIA card in the PC. It's all getting better and better.

+1

The worst thing about windows is the updating, which bloats the
OS and
eventually slows the machine to a crawl. Then you need to spend
money
upgrading RAM. A mug's game.

Fer Christ sakes!, WIN 7 can only use 4 G of RAM and thats sod all
these
days.

This WIN machine updates no and again and its very fast mainly
because
of a solid state drive.

But using spinning rust it was no slouch before either...

Windows 7 64 bit system can use up to 193GB of ram.
It's only the 32 bit system that's restricted to use just a bit less
than 4GB.


Yes thats what we have the 32 bit, can't really see any reason to
change
couldn't use me Turnpike on that...


It should run on the 64 bit version, you don't need new apps just
because you use 64 bit windows.
There were some really bad apps that didn't work as they asked how much
disk/ram was there and thought the answer was negative once they got
big
enough.

Well over on turnpike support they say that it doesn't run under 64 bit.

Mind you its a very olde programme now but I really like the interface
and the way it works..

No plans here to go 4 bit for a while yet, but the second hand laptop
came with WIN 7 64 bit ..

What's the big user advantage of 64 ?..



Unless you have more RAM not a lot.

Well CPU intensive stuff runs twice as fast.

Some things may run faster - but by no means all. Quite often the
available memory bandwidth will get in the way of any real gains.


--
Cheers,

John.

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