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Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers by Dylan16807 on Monday August 08, 2016 @01:47AM (#12245711)
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.
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Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers by colejohnson66 on Monday August 08, 2016 @09:57PM (#12252069)
I thought Windows 32 bit supports PAE?
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Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers by Dylan16807 on Monday August 08, 2016 @11:45PM (#12252483)
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.
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