PC Strange Love, or how I learned to stop worrying and love Windows 64

[bear_helms]

First of all, Thor_Leifson is right. I am a malcontent with computers, but Windows and PCs especially, probably because they give me such excellent opportunities to tinker. I tink. I tink a lot. I tink so much they can smell me a block away. I have a very powerful tink

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[tombfyre]

Yeah, I've been enjoying my Win 7 64 bit machine since I upgraded. ^^ Much more fun to fiddle around with, and backups actually seem to function properly.

Huzzah for tinkering!

[thor_leifson]

Now you'll learn to hate all the hardware companies that refuse to make their hardware compatible with x64. :p

Welcome to my world.

You'll have to keep an eye out. When software and hardware mysteriously doesn't work, it's quite likely because it was designed for x32 and not x64. Often, though, you won't even get an error message.

Don't I know it

[bear_helms]

In the mac world, this incompatibility is known by 2 names. Not carbon compatible, meaning the software libraries are ancient (32-bit or even 16-bit); and even worse, rosetta stone, meaning the code is in PPC machine code, which has to be run through an interpreter on an Intel chip to emulate the Power PC to operate, which is gimpy execution at best, less than half speed in most cases