http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/07/30/windows-vista-64-bit-today.aspx
One of the reasons I bought the laptop I did last summer (ThinkPad T61P) was that they shipped x64 Business. . . . I'm also running x64 Ultimate on my desktop for about a year.
It just feels better in a lot of ways. The most obvious if kind of small? Exiting Outlook (I have some really big Outlook files) actually causes Outlook to end reliably. It certainly did not in x86 or XP.
There appears to be a shift taking place in the PC industry: the move from 32-bit to 64-bit PCs.
We've been tracking the change by looking at the percentage of 64-bit PCs connecting to Windows Update, and have seen a dramatic increase in recent months. The installed base of 64-bit Windows Vista PCs, as a percentage of all Windows Vista systems, has more than tripled in the U.S. in the last three months, while worldwide adoption has more than doubled during the same period. Another view shows that 20% of new Windows Vista PCs in the U.S. connecting to Windows Update in June were 64-bit PCs, up from just 3% in March. Put more simply, usage of 64-bit Windows Vista is growing much more rapidly than 32-bit. Based on current trends, this growth will accelerate as the retail channel shifts to supplying a rapidly increasing assortment of 64-bit desktops and laptops.
One of the reasons I bought the laptop I did last summer (ThinkPad T61P) was that they shipped x64 Business. . . . I'm also running x64 Ultimate on my desktop for about a year.
It just feels better in a lot of ways. The most obvious if kind of small? Exiting Outlook (I have some really big Outlook files) actually causes Outlook to end reliably. It certainly did not in x86 or XP.