Win XP Pro X64. . . Anyone trying it out?

Crash5291 · 11-23-2004, 07:45 PM

Just wondering what peoples thoughts on it are ?

im going to DL it tonight to try out myself

Joe

aqsg72 · 11-23-2004, 08:17 PM

Haven't tried it myself, but from what I've heard from people who have;

There's nothing significantly good about it at the moment, it merely emulates a 32-bit environment in a 64-bit environment.

It's still in its BETA stages

The vast majority of applications still run in 32-bit so there's no real advantage there either

There seems to be very little to make the switch to 64-bit OS worthwhile as it stands, while so many programs aren't made specifically or even made at all for 64-bit, so while there may well be few disadvantages there are few advantages also.

Super_Nova · 11-23-2004, 08:22 PM

It's kind of dumb that they would emulate a 32bit environment when the AMD64 processors can run 32-bit code already without emulation.

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11-23-2004, 08:17 PM	#2 (permalink)
aqsg72 VIP Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Age: 20 Posts: 235	Haven't tried it myself, but from what I've heard from people who have; There's nothing significantly good about it at the moment, it merely emulates a 32-bit environment in a 64-bit environment. It's still in its BETA stages The vast majority of applications still run in 32-bit so there's no real advantage there either There seems to be very little to make the switch to 64-bit OS worthwhile as it stands, while so many programs aren't made specifically or even made at all for 64-bit, so while there may well be few disadvantages there are few advantages also.