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new laptop. win 7 upgrade.

by bobo1172 Oct 24, 2009 10:53AM PDT

so i recently got a new laptop, and it comes with a free win 7 upgrade. currently i am running vista home premium 32 bit and got it with 4 gigs of ram. i am a light gamer. the upgrade will give me win 7 home premium 32. i am planning to get the upgrade and want to know if it is possible to get the upgrade to 64 bit for less money? also is it worth it on my system? because i dont know if 32 bit will recognize all my ram.

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by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Oct 25, 2009 8:13AM PDT

While Microsoft learned to report all 4GB RAM the 32 BIT versions will use most of this ram but not every byte. Frankly this is no great loss. Take the free upgrade.

Sorry, forgive me as I stop here and not duplicate the old 4GB 32-bit Windows discussions.
Bob

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Ypu have to do a clean install to move

by orlbuckeye Nov 2, 2009 8:50PM PST

from 32 to 64 bit. I'm not sure if 32 and 64 bit comes with the upgrade but my guess is that it doesn't because your actually getting the OEM version. So you may just want to install the 32 bit upgrade and wait awhile to see if you really need 64 bit.

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