Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by colejohnson66 on Sunday August 07, 2016 @08:41PM
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> Granted, I was also making a huge upgrade because some tech-illiterate person bought us 32-bit Windows licenses and 4GB RAM (2.9 usable.)
A bit off topic topic, but is there any reason 32-bit Windows is still a thing? Every Intel processor I've seen since Atom failed is 64-bit.
Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by Sanddancer on Sunday August 07, 2016 @08:58PM
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Devices like lower end tablets often have 2 gigs of ram and 32 gigs of flash, which would be problematic because a 64 bit version of Windows uses 3-4 gigabytes more disk space, which would be further amplified by needing that much more space for the recovery partition. These devices are useful, if limited purpose, so putting a 64 bit OS on it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Here's an Intel blog post from last year talking about it: https://blogs.intel.com/evangelists/2015/07/22/why-cheap-sys...
Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by colejohnson66 on Monday August 08, 2016 @09:58PM
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So because tablet makers don't want to spend a few extra dollars on a dedicated flash chip for recovery, 32 bit is still a thing?
Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by hx87 on Sunday August 07, 2016 @10:48PM
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Buying licenses and having 4GB of memory (and being disappointed about it) implies a desktop PC, and even a $80 refurb on eBay has at least an 80 GB hard drive.
Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by Dylan16807 on Monday August 08, 2016 @01:47AM
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There wasn't much technical reason for 32-bit windows to be limited to 4GB in the first place, so I wouldn't try too hard to make sense of it all.
Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by colejohnson66 on Monday August 08, 2016 @09:57PM
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I thought Windows 32 bit supports PAE?
Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
by Dylan16807 on Monday August 08, 2016 @11:45PM
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They do, and they use it to support the NX bit, but they artificially restrict memory to 4GB on everything except the most expensive server SKUs.
I've much more often been frustrated by my phones. My last phone was at the point where I'd expect ~1 second delay for any interaction, whether that was opening an app or scrolling in a webpage. I think as the current one ages I'm going to start eliminating apps and wiping the phone more frequently than I do now, because I'd rather have all that money going toward my desktop and laptops.