Wednesday, January 21, 2015

64 bit - Windows 7 professional 32-bit on a i5 machine, good or bad?






I've got an i5 laptop which came with Windows 7 home premium.I wanted to use the professional version and before doing my dual booting with Ubuntu, I've picked up my Windows 7 professional CD and went again and install it. I've realized later that the version I've had was a 32 bits version.


Now I'm wondering what are the implications? will I loose in processing power?speed? or whatever? I planned to start development and I want to find out from you guys before I start installing visual studio and netbeans etc...


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Answer



The details are covered in the duplicate comment provided by Thiago.


In short, 64 bit is preferable, if you have the install media for it. You can normally use your 32 bit Windows serial key to install the 64 bit version of the same edition as well.


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