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Offline Wolfala

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Hey Skuz - XP64 question
« on: September 22, 2010, 11:21:06 PM »
I've been using it for the last year - and apart from having to cobble together a bunch of drivers that work most of the time - its a great OS. Why'd it never catch on?


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Re: Hey Skuz - XP64 question
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2010, 05:55:23 AM »
Thurott claims its the best OS ever written.  :D
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Re: Hey Skuz - XP64 question
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2010, 06:42:26 AM »
I'm guessing here, but I'd have to say #1 is the driver issue.
#2 there really is not all that much software written to take advantage of 64 bit.
So with a few notable exceptions, there really isn't much advantage to it.

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Re: Hey Skuz - XP64 question
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2010, 08:40:30 AM »
Lack of solid driver support and Microsoft really did just cobble it together.  Sort of a band-aid OS.

The small footprint of XP really did not warrant going to 64 bit.  I still only have a 2GB system at home and with all the video editing I do, I never have a RAM issue.  I cannot figure out why people think they need upmteen GB of RAM to run Facebook.
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Re: Hey Skuz - XP64 question
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2010, 08:42:57 AM »
I cannot figure out why people think they need upmteen GB of RAM to run Facebook.

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Re: Hey Skuz - XP64 question
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2010, 08:45:22 AM »
Farmville + mafia wars. :cool:

I do not know what those are, but I take it they are bloated applications of some type?
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Re: Hey Skuz - XP64 question
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2010, 09:03:59 AM »
Don't you have to be odd to use facebook?
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Re: Hey Skuz - XP64 question
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2010, 04:04:57 PM »
wasnt XP64 just Server 2003 64 bit repackaged for the comsumer?

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Re: Hey Skuz - XP64 question
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2010, 10:44:07 PM »
I do not know what those are, but I take it they are bloated applications of some type?
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Re: Hey Skuz - XP64 question
« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2010, 04:55:32 PM »