Solve : Wndows 10 64-bit or 32-bit??

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Answer» I have an 8 years old laptop, I do feel it is potato but I don't want to buy a new laptop right now. I only need it for an introductory C course in my college. I can upgrade it to 4GB ram but did not do it earlier as 32 bit did not support. Also I never saw it using more than 2 GB RAM. [attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]I have a Dell laptop very similar specification from 2009 and it is running WINDOWS 10 32 bit perfectly fine. It only has 2 GB RAM. if you want to use built in Bash you need the 64 bit version. if they are the same price go for the 64 bit. What is built in bash? Wouldn't 64 bit be better? Will games run better on 64-bit? Any performance IMPROVEMENT?Windows 10 64 bit now has the Linux Bash shell available. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/commandline/wsl/about You will not see much (if any) performance improvements, either to games or otherwise, with that hardware. It appears that you only have 1 Gb of free space on your harddrive while Windows requires at least 15% or 3 gb of free space to operate efficiently.Well I'll be deleting another drive and expand this one then.The general rule of thumb regarding whether to go with 32 or 64 bit is whether or not you require more than 4GB of RAM. 32-bit can only address around 3.2GB of RAM so anything more is a waste. In the FUTURE the 64 bit system should be better. But right now the 32 bit does almost everything you need.Considering you would likely have to pay for Windows 10, I wonder why you would bother. if your cpu supports 64bit, i can't see any reasons NOT to use a 64bit OS.64 bit. Anna Ruth Quote from: Salmon Trout on December 18, 2016, 05:38:30 AM I have a Dell laptop very similar specification from 2009 and it is running Windows 10 32 bit perfectly fine. It only has 2 GB RAM. if you want to use built in Bash you need the 64 bit version. if they are the same price go for the 64 bit. I have pretty much the same. 2 almost identical Dell laptops one has a T3200 with 4GB RAM, the other was upgraded from a T2370 to a T6500 with 3GB RAM. Both are 64-bit Win10. Tried SWAPPING RAM &AMP; the T6500 wouldn't POST. Same RAM in both. Mystery. 3GB is fine for 64-bit if you don't do a lot of multitasking. Upgrading to SSD's makes a bigger difference even though they are SATA2. Quote from: Computer_Commando on December 23, 2016, 09:30:23 AM I have pretty much the same. Mine is a Latitude D830, with a T7500. I bought it cheap from an ex-corporate refurbisher with XP Pro. The only cheap way to get a modern Windows OS was to join the Windows 10 Insider program. It had a SATA 2 80 GB hard drive, and I replaced this with a Sandisk Ultra II 120GB SSD. Unfortunately my wife does not like it, says it is too heavy, so it just sits on a shelf plugged into the AC with an Ethernet cable to the router and I remote desktop into it every now and then mainly to get the latest Insider build. it is on 161202 at the moment. I could purpose it as a DLNA server and Torrent box except that my NAS does those things already. Quote from: Salmon Trout on December 23, 2016, 10:35:59 AM Mine is a Latitude D830, with a T7500. ... Inspiron 1525's: found 1 at the curbside trash, no drive, no battery no charger. The other was given to me when it wasn't being used anymore. Both now have 120GB Samsung 840 EVO's & upgraded wifi cards, dual-band N to replace single-band G, 300MHz instead of 100Mhz wired.Over Christmas I have made a bootable Raspberry Pi Pixel Desktop x86 pen drive and am running it on the laptop with persistence. I keep thinking I must get a Pi and this will get me some practice. I can get into it using TightVNC and next I shall set up SSH. I don't have to go back to work until Jan 3 so I should be OK...

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I have an 8 years old laptop, I do feel it is potato but I don't want to buy a new laptop right now. I only need it for an introductory C course in my college.
I can upgrade it to 4GB ram but did not do it earlier as 32 bit did not support. Also I never saw it using more than 2 GB RAM.

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]I have a Dell laptop very similar specification from 2009 and it is running WINDOWS 10 32 bit perfectly fine. It only has 2 GB RAM. if you want to use built in Bash you need the 64 bit version. if they are the same price go for the 64 bit.

What is built in bash?
Wouldn't 64 bit be better? Will games run better on 64-bit? Any performance IMPROVEMENT?Windows 10 64 bit now has the Linux Bash shell available.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/commandline/wsl/about

You will not see much (if any) performance improvements, either to games or otherwise, with that hardware.
It appears that you only have 1 Gb of free space on your harddrive while Windows requires at least 15% or 3 gb of free space to operate efficiently.Well I'll be deleting another drive and expand this one then.The general rule of thumb regarding whether to go with 32 or 64 bit is whether or not you require more than 4GB of RAM. 32-bit can only address around 3.2GB of RAM so anything more is a waste.
In the FUTURE the 64 bit system should be better.
But right now the 32 bit does almost everything you need.Considering you would likely have to pay for Windows 10, I wonder why you would bother.
if your cpu supports 64bit, i can't see any reasons NOT to use a 64bit OS.64 bit. Anna Ruth Quote from: Salmon Trout on December 18, 2016, 05:38:30 AM

I have a Dell laptop very similar specification from 2009 and it is running Windows 10 32 bit perfectly fine. It only has 2 GB RAM. if you want to use built in Bash you need the 64 bit version. if they are the same price go for the 64 bit.

I have pretty much the same. 2 almost identical Dell laptops one has a T3200 with 4GB RAM, the other was upgraded from a T2370 to a T6500 with 3GB RAM.
Both are 64-bit Win10.
Tried SWAPPING RAM &AMP; the T6500 wouldn't POST. Same RAM in both. Mystery. 3GB is fine for 64-bit if you don't do a lot of multitasking.
Upgrading to SSD's makes a bigger difference even though they are SATA2. Quote from: Computer_Commando on December 23, 2016, 09:30:23 AM

I have pretty much the same.

Mine is a Latitude D830, with a T7500. I bought it cheap from an ex-corporate refurbisher with XP Pro. The only cheap way to get a modern Windows OS was to join the Windows 10 Insider program. It had a SATA 2 80 GB hard drive, and I replaced this with a Sandisk Ultra II 120GB SSD. Unfortunately my wife does not like it, says it is too heavy, so it just sits on a shelf plugged into the AC with an Ethernet cable to the router and I remote desktop into it every now and then mainly to get the latest Insider build. it is on 161202 at the moment. I could purpose it as a DLNA server and Torrent box except that my NAS does those things already. Quote from: Salmon Trout on December 23, 2016, 10:35:59 AM

Mine is a Latitude D830, with a T7500. ...

Inspiron 1525's: found 1 at the curbside trash, no drive, no battery no charger.
The other was given to me when it wasn't being used anymore.
Both now have 120GB Samsung 840 EVO's & upgraded wifi cards, dual-band N to replace single-band G, 300MHz instead of 100Mhz wired.Over Christmas I have made a bootable Raspberry Pi Pixel Desktop x86 pen drive and am running it on the laptop with persistence. I keep thinking I must get a Pi and this will get me some practice. I can get into it using TightVNC and next I shall set up SSH. I don't have to go back to work until Jan 3 so I should be OK...

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