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06-24-2012, 02:27 PM
Vague questions receive vague answers . . . . . .
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06-24-2012, 02:41 PM
The downside to this is that partitioning your drive is like cutting it in pieces. If you were, hypothetically, to give OSX 120GB and Windows 120GB (if the total drive capacity were 240GB), booting into either OS would mount each 120GB partition as a separate drive. Except there's a problem. Windows can't read the OSX file system, so when you boot into Windows, you won't have any access to the OSX partition at all unless you get some third party software to make it possible. This is true in reverse, also. OSX can't read NTFS without third party software support, so when you use Boot Camp to install Windows on a Mac, you're effectively dividing the resources of your laptop's hard drive. If you have an external drive you use for data storage, you can use it with both Windows and OSX by formatting it with the FAT32 file system, as both operating systems can read and write to it. FAT32 is an old file system, though, and it has limitations. The most prominent of these is that the largest file size that can exist on a FAT32 partition is 4GB. Still, it's an option. |
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06-24-2012, 02:48 PM
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06-24-2012, 03:40 PM
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Aren't the drivers that come with Bootcamp 32-bit only?
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06-24-2012, 06:38 PM
Steve Gibson on password policies [grc.com]: I mean, I don't get this change it every eight weeks. ... It's not as if passwords are traveling by camel after they've been stolen, going to the bad guys, and so there's, like, some weird eight-week window, like, oh, we're going to change your password so that the stale password no longer works. ... And all this does is make IT people despised because users, who are not dumb, they think, why am I - why do I have to do this? What problem is this solving?
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#21
06-25-2012, 05:53 AM
Of course the 32-bit version will be more compatible with software. I have nothing but issues with various VPN clients using Windows 7 64-bit. Last edited by DAAB; 06-25-2012 at 05:56 AM.. |
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06-25-2012, 06:32 AM
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06-25-2012, 06:53 AM
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So I guess it is safe to assume that Bootcamp comes with 64-bit drivers.
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06-25-2012, 06:59 AM
You can't fight the future and the future is all 64 bit. |
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#25
06-25-2012, 07:07 AM
And, no, not old clients and they are not cisco VPNs (I have zero issue with Cisco VPNs). |
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06-25-2012, 07:15 AM
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06-25-2012, 08:30 AM
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Heres my take,
If you're using 4gb or less for windows, go with 32 bit, if you must have more ram, go with 64 bit. While 64 bit is fine for most people, some will have issues. Most I'm seeing now are for older printers and such. |
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06-25-2012, 04:00 PM
 You're fine.
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#29
06-25-2012, 06:41 PM
 Apple supplies the drivers. There are all kinds of bugs and compatibility issues with the Windows supplied generic drivers. Plus you'd be missing things like display brightness adjustment. When Boot Camp Assistant offers to download the drivers, let it and put them on a USB drive so you can install them after installing Windows. |
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06-27-2012, 08:34 AM
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The 64 bit version of Windows 7 is very stable and compatible. I would not let your experience with Windows XP 64 bit, which never gained widespread support from third party manufacturers for drivers or software, sway you from considering Windows 7 64 bit. Windows 7 64 bit is optimized for modern hardware including the ability to access over 4GB of RAM, and full support for 64 bit computing for software designed for 64 bit environments. It also fully supports 32 bit applications using Windows on Windows 64 bit and for non-mainstream applications compatibility utilities provided from Microsoft like the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) [microsoft.com] can give you complete control over all of the tweaks to assist an application to see resources in the new architecture. Older 16 bit applications, such as those developed for DOS, require virtualization to run. Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions include support for Windows XP Mode which facilitates these older applications.
As for upgrading now or upon the release of Windows 8, the steps required will be the same. It is not possible to upgrade from 32 bit architecture to 64 bit architecture, as the core instructions of the two architectures are not compatible. That said, you can get close to the same experience by using Windows Easy Transfer [microsoft.com] to migrate your data from one installation to the next. For advanced users or business scenarios, the User State Migration Tool (USMT) [microsoft.com] provides granular control over what to be backed up, support for hard link migrations, where the data is kept on the hard drive during the install and replaced in the new operating system after installation. |
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