Re: 64 bt processor

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And also be aware that hardware features that "anticipate" operating
system support are seldom supported in the way that the designers of
the new hardware supposed. When OS and applications requiring new
features become widely available, hardware with anticipatory support
is frequently quite inferior to systems designed later.

It's best to get a "mainstream" system just below the "top of the
line". You'll pay much less, and the system will remain useful
long enough to allow you to "skip a generation", so that you only
have to upgrade half as often.

This is the real win--upgrading causes an unproductive period, and
should be avoided until it is clear that it will improve overall
productivity sufficiently to quickly recover the "upgrade loss".

Transitions to "new" features that are incompatible with existing
interfaces--like 64-bit programs--are generally slow and underwhelming.

The fact is that there is no compelling reason to move to a 64-bit
model unless you have an *extremely* large amount of data *that you
need to address*. Today, only very large databases and very large
finite element models gain any benefit from 64-bit addressing, and
many of those problems can be solved very well with distributed
data and computation that does not require a 64-bit model.

The PC industry is in real need of a compelling application that
requires a large data model and multiple parallel processes to
run efficiently to generate demand for new products.

Video editing (and encoding in particular) is a very time-consuming
compute-bound application, but it is not interactive, and so is
usually done off-line or in the background. Ironically, video games
are now the most demanding interactive applications, but they do not
have the mass appeal and business utility to fuel a revival of PC
industry growth.

-michael


dmor44 wrote:
Thats an answer I can live with, Thank you so much :}

"Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote:


Siince there is no 64 bit version of MCE 2005, you're correct. You would lose that functionality. Wait for Vista. MCE will release in both the 32 and 64 bit versions.

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"dmor44" <dmor44@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:E78E72C5-81DC-410B-BA68-8C4516167C95@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi, back in 2002 I had to replace my 6 year old computer, so I went to a well know retailer and I told the salesperson that I didn't want to have up to grade in the next year or so, I wanted best system around. Ok he says here you go Hp media center pc with 64 bit processor,hypotreading yada yada yada. He says Within a year every thing will be 64 bit. I have yet to see the first 64 bit program. Dosn't mean they are not avalible, I just haven't seen em. So last week I see Windows xp Pro x64 hmmm.. So you mean my 64 bit processor dosn't have the operating sustem to Maximize it. I read that if I was to do a clean install of pro x64 all my files would be erased including Media Center! and I would have no way to reinstall it because because it came with the computer and I have no instalation disc. I called Hp to see if there was a way to make it work and got the run around. "Top of the line system", "It is 64 bit COMPATABLE " etc etc.... Am I missing something..Or am I wrong and is there a fix, Thanks for reading my Rantings



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