{"id":1258,"date":"2011-04-10T15:27:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T19:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2011-04-10T15:27:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T19:27:45","slug":"why-the-push-to-64bit-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/why-the-push-to-64bit-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the push to 64bit Windows?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000;\"><strong>William wants to know  why computer manufacturers are pushing 64-bit machines<br \/>\n<\/strong>I would like to know why most all computer brands are now trying to sell 64  bit in place of 32 bit, is their a good reason for this? Please let me know as I  am thinking of replacing my wife&#8217;s computer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000;\"><strong>Our Answer<br \/>\n<\/strong>The answer is complex. It depends on what kinds of applications you  generally run and how resource hungry they are. If you generally use your  computer for browsing the Web, emailing, chatting, social networking, light  image editing, etc. then a 32 bit system would be perfectly fine for you. The  future, though, is going to be 64-bit because it has many advantages over 32 bit  including the maximum amount of RAM that can be accessed and better overall  performance. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul> <span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000;\"><\/p>\n<li>64 bit systems can use much more than 4GB of  \tmemory, but, any 32 bit software will be restricted to 4GB memory \u2013 you need  \ta 64 bit CPU, OS and applications to take full advantage of the extra RAM.<\/li>\n<li>16 bit applications will no longer run.  \tAlthough this is unlikely to be a problem, if you use very old software  \t(from the Windows 3.1 days!) then it will not work under a 64 bit OS.<\/li>\n<li>Any 32 bit drivers will no longer work. If  \tyou&#8217;re buying a new Windows 64-bit computer this won&#8217;t be a problem. But if  \tyou intend to run older 32 bit programs which require drivers to run  \t(usually antivirus programs, specialized database programs, CAD drawing  \tprograms, some types of games, system optimizer programs, etc.) they will not work.  \tHowever most 32 bit applications will run just fine on 64  \tbit systems. Most software does not need drivers and therefore most (but  \tnot all) 32 bit applications will run on a 64 bit computer.<\/li>\n<p><\/span><\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000;\"> <\/span> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Sans Serif';\"> <span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000;\">If you regularly work  with resource-hungry applications that are 64 bit optimized like video editing  software, 3D graphics software, CAD software or huge databases it would be  especially beneficial to be able to take advantage of more than 4GB of RAM &#8211; for  these types of applications, a 64 bit system would be the better choice since it can use  virtually unlimited amounts of RAM. The amount of RAM you can use would be  limited only by the computer&#8217;s motherboard. If you have a 64 bit computer and  you want to add more RAM, make sure you know what the maximum amount of RAM you  can install in your computer. While a 64 bit operating system can utilize almost  unlimited amounts of RAM, your computer&#8217;s motherboard will have a maximum amount  that can be installed. So be sure to check your computer manufacturer&#8217;s web site or with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crucial.com\/\">www.crucial.com<\/a> before you buy additional  RAM.<\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt\u00a0 that 64 bit computing is here to stay &#8212; for a while.  And it&#8217;s clear that 32  bit operating systems will go the way of 16 bit operating systems. With that  being said, did you know that right now  Microsoft is working on a 128 bit operating system? And it may well be that  they&#8217;ll be a 128-bit version of  Windows 8 when it is released sometime in 2012 (hopefully before the end of the world! &#8212; Just kidding.) . <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William wants to know why computer manufacturers are pushing 64-bit machines I would like to know why most all computer brands are now trying to sell 64 bit in place of 32 bit, is their a good reason for this? Please let me know as I am thinking of replacing my wife&#8217;s computer. Our Answer The answer is\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/why-the-push-to-64bit-windows\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[850,849,851,59,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}