32 bit Vista on 64 bit CPUs in Germany?
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I want to buy a laptop for my 15 year old nephew in Germany (I'm a nice uncle :) ) and he is telling me the 64 bit processors come with a 32 bit OS. It costs extra to get a 64 bit OS. I have looked at online PC sales sites in Germany and do not see any thing that indicates the bitness of the OS in the laptop specifications. Can anyone in Germany verify what my nephew is telling me?
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I want to buy a laptop for my 15 year old nephew in Germany (I'm a nice uncle :) ) and he is telling me the 64 bit processors come with a 32 bit OS. It costs extra to get a 64 bit OS. I have looked at online PC sales sites in Germany and do not see any thing that indicates the bitness of the OS in the laptop specifications. Can anyone in Germany verify what my nephew is telling me?
If it doesn't specifically state that a 64bit version of Vista is pre-installed it will almost certainly be 32bit version.
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I want to buy a laptop for my 15 year old nephew in Germany (I'm a nice uncle :) ) and he is telling me the 64 bit processors come with a 32 bit OS. It costs extra to get a 64 bit OS. I have looked at online PC sales sites in Germany and do not see any thing that indicates the bitness of the OS in the laptop specifications. Can anyone in Germany verify what my nephew is telling me?
Here is a web page from Dell Germany[^] showing both 32-bit and 64-bit Vista is available on the model I chose at random. :)
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Here is a web page from Dell Germany[^] showing both 32-bit and 64-bit Vista is available on the model I chose at random. :)
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DISCLAIMER: this message may have been modified by others; it may no longer reflect what I intended, and may contain bad advice; use at your own risk and with extreme care.
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If it doesn't specifically state that a 64bit version of Vista is pre-installed it will almost certainly be 32bit version.
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Very different than my experiences in the US. I am a "hands on" shopper and have always gone the physical stores to select a system. I do not recall ever seeing such a mismatch.
Until fairly recently most boxmart PCs I saw advertised came with 3gb of ram and vista32, despite the fact that almost all of them had 64 bit CPUs.
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