Windows Vista Update

A guy in Florida

by Derek Courson
(Jax, Florida, USA)

Wow I can't believe this article was written in April 2008. This story is pretty amazingly backwards. The guy writing the article questions how many people will even have "4 gigs" or ram in their system within the next few years. I have to question why anyone would ask this question. You can buy 4 gigs of ram for less than a hundred bucks... That's less than I paid for 128 megs of ram in the 90's........ 2 gig ram sticks are already starting to become the norm.... Given that most people buy 2 identicle sticks of ram when they upgrade or buy a new system, 4 gigs of ram (2x2) will be the norm very soon.

I know I recently bought a new laptop. There was some confusion as to which OS I was ordering. I ended up with Vista 32... and 4 gigs of ram.... What a let down. I can't even use all three of them, because let's not forget that the 32 bit ram limitation not only applies to the ram on your mobo, but also ram on your graphics card.

Now my laptop has a pretty crappy graphics card, but my table top PC has 500 megs of memory. So it is really limited to 2.5 gigs of usable system memory ram. Is anyone really seriously suggesting that it is unusual to want more than 2.5 gigs of ram? Let's come back to reality.

Vista 64 is not just late, but way late. We should have made a full switch over to 64 bit OS years ago. Vista 32 shouldn't even exist. It just creates confusion having a 32 bit OS and a 64 bit OS with the same name. Microsoft should have just left XP for 32 bit computers, and made Vista 64 bit only.

For people who don't believe we are ready for 64 bit computing, I say get a clue. If 4 gigs of ram still cost 500-600 bucks, like it did a few years ago, I could maybe understand why getting 4 gigs of ram might be a rare thing. But with 4 gigs of ram costing less than a hundred bucks, it's a great upgrade for everyone.

My next computer will not, for the record, be using 4 gigs of ram with a 64 bit OS. It will be running a 64 bit OS with 8 gigs of ram... bought for less than 200 bucks. You can already order an 8 gig ram package from Newegg and other retail outlets. That's what I'll be buying when I upgrade.

Will I need 8 gigs of ram? Probably not, but it will be a cool thing to have. With ram prices being so low, there is no reason not to upgrade.