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    Windows XP x64 Edition Now Available

    How long have we been waiting? Well, now it's out and you can buy it.
    Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is designed to meet the demands of customers who require large amounts of memory and floating point performance in areas such as mechanical design and analysis, 3-D animation, video editing and composition, and scientific and high-performance computing applications.
    Does that include gamers and enthusiasts who want to make use of their 64bit CPU? Probably... maybe... eventually

    Still, if you've got the urge to snap up a 64bit version of your favourite OS from Redmond, then CPU City have it.

    HEXUS Software Guru Directhex also has a thread on this setup in HEXUS Operating Systems and Applications
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    Just wondering, is this all backwards compatible with previous software?

    I am building a friend a PC, running an AMD 64 3500, so am wonderng whether to get him this OS instead of the good ol' 32bit.

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    I think drivers are a bit of an issue right now. General software should, in theory, be OK.
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    Also is the performance "OMGOSH THIS IS SO MUCH QUICKER?!?!1/1/1/", or, "hot diggidy it shaves .5ms off of Word loading time"? Or is there no performance benefit? I know nothing about CPU architectures

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    I can't think of any programs at this moment in time that would benefit from 64 bit.

    ...somebody help me out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kez
    I can't think of any programs at this moment in time that would benefit from 64 bit.

    ...somebody help me out.
    What about encoding audio and video? I know nothing

    However, I think for the moment he can stick with 32bit.. he won't want the hassle of finding compatible drivers and stuff.. I dont think.

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    A wise choice.
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    CPU city are selling the OEM version.. hmm OEM can only be sold with a new PC so if they sell this there breaking the law?
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    I would imagine you can't buy just XP. You'll have to buy some hardware too.
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    Well, I'm in the US and I know newegg will be selling it with any pice of hardware soon.

    I got my oem windows 2000 with a 3pin fan tail, and my oem windows XP with an $8 floppy drive.

    Not sure if I am going to get XP 64 bit however. I've used al the public relase betas and a few of the non public betas and, for the most part, they got worse with every build.

    I never had any real compatability problems and I found usable drivers for all my hardware, but its far too much like windows XP (obviously not surprising) for me to like it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kez
    I can't think of any programs at this moment in time that would benefit from 64 bit.

    ...somebody help me out.
    i can think of a program!!!

    Windows lol anythings gotta be better than the pap there throwing at us with sp2

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    Hello
    My reluctance to plunge into the win64 bog is strange considering I made sure my machine had a 64 bit processor.
    When Photoshop goes 64 bit then I'll probably start being interested.
    The strangest thing for me is that none of the Office programs are being released as 64 bit versions simultaneously with win64.
    Maybe a couple of 64 bit games will get released that are deliberately coded to be relatively inefficient with a 32 bit OS.
    cheers
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    64-bit games are old hat on linux (unreal tournament 2004 ships with an amd64 linux version on the dvd)

    on windows, i think you have a choice of minesweeper, solitaire, or chronicles or riddick escape from butcher bay

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