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keacy

01-19-2008, 07:33 AM

HI guys,

Im gonna reinstall my operation system, after couple of months with vista.
I do a lot of compostinig,so could you help, which system i can use for my PC, i use pc usually for Photoshop, Maya, After Effect, later maybe Shake if will be possible,
i v got 4 GB ram, and i heard that XP can accept only 1,5 GB and rest of is wasting of the memory.
is it true or not?
i dont know,to be honest-

What do you recommend me????

Vista Home Premium 64bit /I ve got it now/
XP proffesional
or XP proffesional 64 bit

thanks for big, help, later i will buy probably MAC anyway, but i want to wait while yet.

BacteryBoy

01-19-2008, 05:22 PM

xp 64 bits its the best option :thumbsup:

teahtime

01-28-2008, 02:37 PM

windows 32bit canonly see up to 3GB with a switch added to the boot loader config file (boot.ini)

So yes, XP 64Bit!

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