64bit Home?
 

Local vendors seem unable to answer this one - Is the Win 7 Home Edition
available in 64bit?

I'm running WinXP Pro in a computer that has 8 gigs of memory installed,
but I can only see 3.5 gigs of it. What is the least costly 64bit
version which can access all 8 gigs?

Regards,

Terry Smythe
Winnipeg, Canada

Re: 64bit Home?
 

On 24/10/2009 in message <9iIEm.44338$4E.37102@newsfe08.iad> Terry Smythe
wrote:

>Local vendors seem unable to answer this one - Is the Win 7 Home Edition
>available in 64bit?
>
>I'm running WinXP Pro in a computer that has 8 gigs of memory installed,
>but I can only see 3.5 gigs of it. What is the least costly 64bit
>version which can access all 8 gigs?

I have the retail version of Home Premium on my laptop and that came with
2 x DVDs, 1 32 bit and the other 64bit. The message is clear, MSFT want us
to move to 64 bit computing...

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his
life.
(Jeremy Thorpe, 1962)

Re: 64bit Home?
 

Home Premium is both x86 (32-bit) & x64 (64-bit).

Home Basic and Starter are x86 (32-bit) only.



Terry Smythe wrote:
> Local vendors seem unable to answer this one - Is the Win 7 Home Edition
> available in 64bit?
>
> I'm running WinXP Pro in a computer that has 8 gigs of memory installed,
> but I can only see 3.5 gigs of it. What is the least costly 64bit
> version which can access all 8 gigs?
>
> Regards,
>
> Terry Smythe
> Winnipeg, Canada

Re: 64bit Home?
 

In article <#JAh3ROVKHA.844@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>,
rjohnson@discussions.microsoft.com says...
>
> Home Premium is both x86 (32-bit) & x64 (64-bit).
> Home Basic and Starter are x86 (32-bit) only.
>

Interesting,
Vista 64 came for both Home Basic and Home Premium.
Basic could manage 8GB, Premium 16 GB.

--
Poutnik
The best depends on how the best is defined.

Re: 64bit Home?
 

I don't know about Vista because I never used it. But there is only a
32-bit Home Basic available for download, so I'm assuming there isn't a
64-bit Home Basic. Neither Best Buy nor NewEgg list a Home Basic for sale.


Poutnik wrote:
> In article <#JAh3ROVKHA.844@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>,
> rjohnson@discussions.microsoft.com says...
>> Home Premium is both x86 (32-bit) & x64 (64-bit).
>> Home Basic and Starter are x86 (32-bit) only.
>>
>
> Interesting,
> Vista 64 came for both Home Basic and Home Premium.
> Basic could manage 8GB, Premium 16 GB.
>

Re: 64bit Home?
 

Hi Terry
any 64 bit version will be fine
Windows 7 home 64 bit will do the trick.

"Terry Smythe" <smythe@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:9iIEm.44338$4E.37102@newsfe08.iad...
> Local vendors seem unable to answer this one - Is the Win 7 Home Edition
> available in 64bit?
>
> I'm running WinXP Pro in a computer that has 8 gigs of memory installed,
> but I can only see 3.5 gigs of it. What is the least costly 64bit
> version which can access all 8 gigs?
>
> Regards,
>
> Terry Smythe
> Winnipeg, Canada

Re: 64bit Home?
 

Terry Smythe wrote:

> Is the Win 7 Home Edition
> available in 64bit?

In our local Future Shop, they have all version of Win7 out on display,
all empty boxes, labeled (Display Only", with no hint of what is
actually inside the box. Finally got someone to pull a live one out
of secure storage and sure enough, just as others have indicated, the
live Win7 Home Premium box had on it a sticker - "Contains 2 DVD's -
32bit and 64bit". It's the 64bit I need for my 8 gigs of memory, so
walked away with it. Many thanks for the advice by all, appreciated.

Regards,

Terry