64 bit laptop: Be afraid??

[Shelly Schneider]

Hi All,

 

I'm thinking about upgrading to a 64 bit machine.  I've had problems with
FrameMaker and Acrobat on my 32 bit laptop ever since I moved "up" from
Frame 8 and Windows XP.  I'm running Windows 7 with 4 Gb RAM (3 Gb usable)
on an Intel Core Duo @2 GHz; FrameMaker 9.0p255, Acrobat 9 Pro, and WebWorks
ePublisher 2009.3. My current laptop is only 18 months old. 

 

Do Frame and Acrobat (and WebWorks) run any more reliably on a 64 bit
machine? Faster? Will shelling out the bucks to upgrade to the latest
releases make a difference in how well they run on 64 bits?

 

On my current system, Frame tends to crash and needs to be restarted.
Acrobat also crashes before (slowly) finishing large documents even after a
reboot, although when you look for the PDF it's there and seems to look and
work fine.  Sometimes "Save as PDF" also crashes, but creating a .ps file by
printing to the Adobe PDF printer and then distilling the ps file works.
Various Windows software runs so slowly and is so crash-happy that 64 bits
also seems needed to improve that as well.

 

Thanks in advance for sharing your experience with me!

 

Shelly Schneider

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