TR reader Dillon Befus tipped me off to some very interesting system requirements for the 64-bit version of Microsoft's Windows operating system. According to Microsoft's own TechNet web site, Windows XP 64-bit Edition requires a minimum of 1GB of memory. On the same page, Microsoft lists Windows XP Professional as requiring only 64MB of memory, though 128MB is recommended. Microsoft doesn't yet list a recommended memory size for Windows XP 64-bit edition.

Though its name is rather ambiguous, it looks like Windows XP 64-bit Edition refers to Microsoft's desktop operating system for the Itanium 2. Just how different the system requirements for a 64-bit version of Windows tailored for AMD's Athlon64 are remains to be seen, but given the incredibly steep memory requirements for Windows XP 64-bit Edition, I'm a little concerned.


Technet: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...a_fea_ppnm.asp
The Tech Report: http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/5122

well, it's a good excuse to upgrade since RAM prices are still REALLY low. :D go for it! indulge yourself... ;)

-CaP

well, 64 bit aint a consumer os anyways, and most itanium2 servers do indeed have 1 gb of ram already.

yeah but then you'll need

1 gb 4 the OS
1 gb for appz and such
1 gb for games and anything else
1 gb for you dont run out when the sp packs come out which will eat up more memory
1 gb just encase

oh and 1 gb on stand-by cause if 1 of the above go you will have a slow system and you still may need it 4 longhorn 643-bit system

thats a load of memory

Dang...and here I thought my 1 GB of PC2700 memory was going to last a while. Oh, well...another excuse to upgrade.

yeah but then you'll need

1 gb 4 the OS
1 gb for appz and such
1 gb for games and anything else
1 gb for you dont run out when the sp packs come out which will eat up more memory
1 gb just encase

oh and 1 gb on stand-by cause if 1 of the above go you will have a slow system and you still may need it 4 longhorn 643-bit system

thats a load of memory [/b][/quote]
Dude, you didn't read Nichotin's post. Let me restate it: The 64 bit operating system, is NOT a consumer OS. Therefore, you can remove games from the list of things to do on it. So, now that removed 1 gb of memory. Besides, you wouldn't need seperate catagories for APPS and GAMES. They are the same thing.

Well, if we ran 16-bit applications in the past, and 32-bit applications in the present, i believe we as homeusers could run or will have to run 64-bit applications in the future. Thus i disagree with what people saying: itanium-64 or windows xp 64-bit edition can be never used by home users.

DS is just making a point that if you want to run any thing on the computer besides the OS, you are going to need a lot of memory, and besides i think that there are going to be consumers that want to run the os just because they want to keep up with the Jones, there are people out there that want the latest and greatest stuff.

Not yet. But soon? Probably ;)

x86-64 - AMD's 64bit chips that are coming out are meant for home users as well as servers