Help with First Build

[Yami]

so the windows 7 candidate is one of those like 30 day trials.

Not really, it just starts shutting itself down every two hours, starting next March. So technically it's still free, just very difficult to use It's perfect for use for another eight months.

 

[james.wired]

Yeah. It will no longer be available to download after August 20th though, just to let you know.

Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC): Instructions for Free Download

 

[CoZTraDaMuS]

In a nutshell. 32bit operating systems only recognize an amount of memory close to 3.5 odd gigs of ram. 64 bit operating systems can recognize much more than you are going to need anytime soon. Which is also why you want a 64 bit processor in this day and age.. same reason... in a nutshell

 

[Yami]

In a nutshell. 32bit operating systems only recognize an amount of memory close to 3.5 odd gigs of ram. 64 bit operating systems can recognize much more than you are going to need anytime soon. Which is also why you want a 64 bit processor in this day and age.. same reason... in a nutshell

It's fairly difficult to buy a processor that isn't 64-bit