Re: Apple and 64 bit apps - the latest in this series

On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 11:18:42 -0400, Daniel Johnson wrote:
The lack of Classic is a shame... but OS X does not confuse users with
two versions... and Apple does not push a systems with more RAM than it
can use.

I see no evidence that any users are "confused". They buy a computer,
the OEM picks the right Windows for that hardware. That's 64-bit Vista
quite frequently, it turns out.

OTOH, it does appear that Dell is confused and shipping systems with
suboptimal Windows installs. That turns out to include shipping 64-bit
Windows on systems that do not need it.


If you have not seen evidence of confusion, then you don't work with
consumers! An average Joe knows a few "facts": More is better. Period. GHz,
memory, hard disk, whatever. Maybe even "bits", meaning 32- and 64-bit
operating systems.

So when he goes to upgrade (and if he has some money), he goes for all the
RAM he can afford, and could end up with a 64-bit machine he can't migrate
all of his current software to.

.

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