Where is the 64bit software?

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: taltamir
@Myocardia... I didn't personally know a single person who used Me, instead every one of them was using windows 2000... well, it kinda helped that me and my friends pushed them towards using it over Me....

You'll want to reread my post, I guess. I said "mostly used by businesses", which it was. As a matter of fact, there are still many businesses that run it to this day.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd

Originally posted by: SickBeast
I tried Firefox 64-bit and it's fast...BUT:

- AT loads in under a second in Opera for me
- Opera can zoom the internet, which I find necessary at 1920x1200 resolution
- half a second isn't much

I'm not sure we'll EVER see widespread x86-64 apps. They're not exactly catching on at the moment, and we've had the hardware for years.

Opera wasn't as easy to use and there are firefox plugins I can't live without.

Firefox users should enable Pipelining anyhow which will load faster than Opera.

Like I said, speed isn't everything. It's not like the internet is "unplayable".

For me, I find it harder to live without the page zoom feature than I do living without the plugins like adblock.

IE7 does a page zoom too, but it's clunky and even slower, plus I can't stand their tab interface.

 

[taltamir]

what is pipelining, and if its so great how come it isn't on by default?

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: taltamir
what is pipelining, and if its so great how come it isn't on by default?

http://macosxcocktail.blogs.co...1/improve_firefox.html

 

[jonmcc33]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
I tried Firefox 64-bit and it's fast...BUT:

- AT loads in under a second in Opera for me
- Opera can zoom the internet, which I find necessary at 1920x1200 resolution
- half a second isn't much

I'm not sure we'll EVER see widespread x86-64 apps. They're not exactly catching on at the moment, and we've had the hardware for years.

64-bit will not have a difference on how fast the internet is...

 

[Nathelion]

I imagine the transition to 64-bit will be relatively quick compared to 32-bit, for example. Why? because unlike when 32-bit came around, we have actually run slap-bang into a hard wall of a hardware limitation: memory address space. Resource demanding apps will HAVE to make the transition reasonably soon no matter what, there is no choice on the matter.

 

[BadRobot]

Originally posted by: GundamF91
Good write up SLugbait. 1 page of history is worth a volume of logic. Clearly it just takes time, especially since HW support for 64bit came to be 2 yrs ago, and 64bit OS support has only been a year. It'll be at least couple of years until we see some useful 64bit products. Now if they were to write games in 64bit that'll help to push this along. Maybe I'll just wait for 128bit to come.

128 bit won't come for a very long time i think...

Windows 64 bit operating systems max amount of memory is artificially limited to 16 or 32 gigs of ram right now. Meaning, they went in and said "don't recognize more than 32 gigs." The theoretical memory limit for 64 bit sounds like they made up a number to describe it...like.. a cajillion...or something...

edit: found it, it can take up to a exabyte of memory