Compatibility of old(ish) Software with Windows 7

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

YMMV, of course.

I also edit videos on my system. These are in HD format and are my training video's can run an hour or sometimes more. Each 15 minute file from my Canon video recorder starts out as 2GB in size.

So, more than 4GB and a 64-bit video editing package is essential ... not just a nice to have! The final rendering time on a 32-bit system would be too long to be workable.

The point is that memory is inexpensive (dare I say, cheap) nowadays. No reason not to have more than 4GB available - I have 32Gb on my Lenovo laptop, for example.

Z

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:50 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Compatibility of old(ish) Software with Windows 7

I think buying more than 4GB of RAM would be a waste of money for most tech writers.

The only thing I've done in my work where I've needed more than 4GB is testing server applications with large memory footprints. The rest of the time I'm not using even half my 4GB.

Outside of work I run music software that's extremely memory-intensive and 4GB on 32-bit is not a bottleneck.

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain
(Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote:
> On a modern computer/laptop of the past few years, which are usually fully 64-bit capable and _usually_ have more than 4GB of main memory, installing Windows 7 32-bit is silly and wasteful. You end up not using the memory above 4GB (actually, less, since the graphics cards and stuff also take up some of the low-memory in a 32-bit OS load), etc., etc., etc.
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