Your being focused on a "personal consumer" level of thinking. Where are most of the machines in this world? in business, mostly as servers....as far as the expansion in the MS OS world, the only reason servers are "allowed" that much memory is for ..... wait for it.......wait for it......clustering. yes there is the answer. CLUSTERING. I don't think you've even heard of the term. What does clustering do you ask? It allows multiple proccessors , "gasp", with their own memory, upto 8gigs ecc for each proccessor, "gasp x2", to run as a SINGLE MACHINE! Do you think google has just one machine giving you their website?
BTW most of your MAJOR companies use 64 software on a regular basis. Microsoft, AT&T, Sprint, anyone that has a major website, all use 64bit OS becuase it moves faster. Its like a highway man, the more lanes, the more traffic you can hold.
WRONG, all COMPLETELY WRONG.
PAE is a good move for companies that run database servers, yet don't want to spend money and go bankrupt by buying a 64bit platform.
http://www.osronline.com/ddkx/appendix/pae_3oyn.htm
Your being focused on a "personal consumer" level of thinking.
No i'm not, I am talking about 64bit in general.
Where are most of the machines in this world? in business, mostly as servers....as far as the expansion in the MS OS world
Most computers are not servers, but are personal computers. Logically thinking, there is way over 10 times the computers that do not need 64bit support, than the ones that might need it without the use of PAE.
the only reason servers are "allowed" that much memory is for ..... wait for it.......wait for it......clustering. yes there is the answer. CLUSTERING.
Wrong, that is an incorrect awnser. Its called PAE which allows more memory for 32bit systems.
It allows multiple proccessors , "gasp", with their own memory, upto 8gigs ecc for each proccessor, "gasp x2", to run as a SINGLE MACHINE! Do you think google has just one machine giving you their website?
The point? Of course I know that google/yahoo has hundreds / thousands of computers that do their tasks, it can all still be done in 32bit. The average home user does not cluster.
BTW most of your MAJOR companies use 64 software on a regular basis. Microsoft, AT&T, Sprint, anyone that has a major website, all use 64bit OS becuase it moves faster.
BTW most of your MAJOR companies actually use 32bit software within them, such as windows 2000 and windows xp, and for there website hosting use 64bit, even though there are 32bit website servers that are fast. 64bit does not mean faster, programming and the cpu does.