32-bit vs. 64-bit Ultimate

Bartosz Bien

Which one would be more suitable for a developer's workstation? Pros and cons, please. :)

Joel P

I would think 64-bit, as it can handle lots more memory and run 32 or 64-bit versions of everything, whereas 32-bit can only run 32-bit versions. Assuming you have a 64-bit processor, I can't really think of a downside of running the 64-bit version.

realJSOP

Joel P. wrote:

Assuming you have a 64-bit processor, I can't really think of a downside of running the 64-bit version.

You mean other than crappy/non-existant 64-bit drivers?

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Bartosz Bien

My thinking has always been similar, but with 64-bit XP I encountered hardware incompatibility problems. Doesn't it happen with x64 Vista too?

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Michael Dunn

At this stage, you're at the mercy of drivers. If you can find 64-bit drivers for all your hardware, consider yourself lucky.

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Sachin Pimpale

with all it is the BEST :) :cool: Performance

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Bradml

Bartosz Bien wrote:

Doesn't it happen with x64 Vista too?

This happens with Vista, period!

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M Harris

I havent had any problems so far, but i do have a laptop rather than a PC with vista on it. Most major vendors now have 64bit drivers out for vista. You might want to look at what hardware you have and then see if the drivers you'd need to download exist.

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Matt Newman

I am running both my farm of machines. For the most part 32-bit just works (meaning I have only had to look for one driver total). 64-bit works most of the time, I researched hardware that all had Vista 64 drivers or at least XP 64 drivers and just about everything has worked. If you can get a machine that you can get all your drivers for Vista 64 I would recommend it. I have found a stunning amount of .NET applications that reference 32-bit unmanaged libraries compiled with the ANYCPU option which causes the app to crash the second it gets to anything calling said 32-bit code. In terms of general use it runs the same as Vista 64, I would recommend it on the basis that eventually things will migrate to 64-bit and this way you'll be ready.

Matt Newman