Vista 64

> You can easily plug 8GB on Windows Vista 64 and come out under $250 (Newegg.com prices)

and from the daily wibble of the 20th March

> Reaper HPC DDR2-1066 2x2GB kit. You’ll have to go Vista 64-bits to take advantage of all this memory, mind you.

I see the comment posted against that last one never made it up on the site, so just to try and ask again...

Paul - what's with the Vista 64 plug and impression that only It can cope with a bunch of memory ? You are aware of previous/current Microsoft products that can cope perfectly well with it aren't you ?... not to mention the rather large array of operating systems that have supported large memories sizes for an *awfully* long time.

You're not on a bung to shift a few licenses are you ?

;)

Picking nits

You really going to pick on the poor guy for not just saying "A 64-bit operating system is needed to address that amount of RAM"?

Obviously most people use M$ Windows. Most windows users use the 32-bit version. Also, most people are laymen. So he's making it simple for them, that's all.

Oh, the frail egos of Unix (or rather Unix-like) users...

Jk, Tim. ;)

Your point was well-made.

more memory for less

I wish memory makers instead of crying foul over low average selling prices , increased the density of the chips. They can automatically put their competitors out of business , by selling higher capacity chips/modules. Now that Microsoft Vista and all new motherboards do not have the 4 gb limit , it makes sense to put more memory in destop / laptop computers. While its easy to find 16 gb flash memory, used in ee pc, iphone etc, no single vendor has come up with affordable 4 gb single module memory for desktops or laptops. I wait for the day when i can put 8gb and 16gb ram in my laptop and 32 gb or 64 gb in my desktops. The server parts which can take so much memory add unnecessary complications. It was time memory makers thought about desktops and laptops as well.