I am a bit amazed at the lack of discussion concerning the value and future compatibillity of the current 32 bit Intel offerings in light of the complete transition to 64 bit in the coming months and forever after. It would be extremely helpful, and I think is the responsibillity of the technichal press to provide complete information about how and why these 32 bit systems will and will not be fully compatible with 64 bit Vista and 64 bit applications going forward.
I am sitting on a well configured HP 9420 Core Duo laptop, that is a 32 bit CPU not 64 bit. I have not opened the box and am trying to decide wether or not to send it back and wait for the real thing.
I have found it very difficult to find good complete information on this. Particularly from HP, which seems to feel the less that is said about compatibillity of the latest 32 bit systems and the transition to 64 bit the better. From what I have gathered so far a 32 bit system, ie. Yonah Core Duo, will run 32 bit apps under emulation on Vista. I have found nothing that explains how a 32 bit system runs a 64 bit OS in terms of reconciling a 64 bit registry and the fundamental differences that exist between the two architectures and software. Will 32 bit systems be limited to the bare bones 32 bit verstion of Vista for example?
I can see some potential short term advantages with 32 bit in terms of the smaller overhead that is required. Still 32 bit is going to be past tense in the next couple of months.
As much as I need a laptop ASAP, I am hesitant to make this kind of investment in something that is not up to the standards of computing from here on out. I am a photographer so image editing and management, ie. Photoshop, are my most critical applications. I beleive Photoshop will be one of the first applications to go 64 bit, and would realy like to find some information that gets down to the facts (as opposed to "Designed for Windows XP 32-bit or 64-bit" logos and empty marketing assurances). Like I said I am amazed at how much these current, albeit powerful new 32 bit Core Duo systems, are hyped up without any qualification and in depth discussion of their limitations with 64 applications and Vista.
I am sitting on a well configured HP 9420 Core Duo laptop, that is a 32 bit CPU not 64 bit. I have not opened the box and am trying to decide wether or not to send it back and wait for the real thing.
I have found it very difficult to find good complete information on this. Particularly from HP, which seems to feel the less that is said about compatibillity of the latest 32 bit systems and the transition to 64 bit the better. From what I have gathered so far a 32 bit system, ie. Yonah Core Duo, will run 32 bit apps under emulation on Vista. I have found nothing that explains how a 32 bit system runs a 64 bit OS in terms of reconciling a 64 bit registry and the fundamental differences that exist between the two architectures and software. Will 32 bit systems be limited to the bare bones 32 bit verstion of Vista for example?
I can see some potential short term advantages with 32 bit in terms of the smaller overhead that is required. Still 32 bit is going to be past tense in the next couple of months.
As much as I need a laptop ASAP, I am hesitant to make this kind of investment in something that is not up to the standards of computing from here on out. I am a photographer so image editing and management, ie. Photoshop, are my most critical applications. I beleive Photoshop will be one of the first applications to go 64 bit, and would realy like to find some information that gets down to the facts (as opposed to "Designed for Windows XP 32-bit or 64-bit" logos and empty marketing assurances). Like I said I am amazed at how much these current, albeit powerful new 32 bit Core Duo systems, are hyped up without any qualification and in depth discussion of their limitations with 64 applications and Vista.
