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hi everybody

heres a question for all of you out there as i am a bit confused having purchased my tx2 which came with vista 32 bit system, i have put a dual boot system with windows 7 64bit using windows 7 is lighting fast compared to the vista option

heres the question is it the change from 32bit to 64 bit or is it the changing of operating system that has given this increase in speed?

any help please

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July 6, 2009 8:11 PM

Yes and no. I'm running a dual boot Win vista 32 bit/ Win7 64 bit on my TX2500 tablet (somewhat similar to yours). The Win 7 does run much quicker on it than the 32 bit Vista but it does so as well on all my systems that I dual boot. I also have a UMPC that I run Vista32 and Win732 on and Win7 still runs better on it.

You may be seeing a performance increase over the 32 bit Vista because the OEM install has a lot of bloatware along with it that your Win7 install probably doesn't have. From what I understand about 64 bit operating systems, they actually perform a little worse than 32 bit (with the exception of memory use above 4 gigs) because they have to run a 32 bit layer for compatability with 32 bit programs.
If, say, you were running a pure 64 bit OS and nothing but 64 bit programs, it would perform better.

Finally, it will be a bit more stable than a 32 bit system as the drivers will not (likely) take down the whole kernel of a driver crashes.

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July 7, 2009 4:00 AM

thanks for the info, its a strange one really im not a big fan of vista and have always used XP
and trying to make a choice wether to upgrade to ultimate vista or wait for windows 7 is tough i need a stable system now not in 6 months and i am sure windows 7 will have teething problems when released as all previous realeases have been the same
i guess i could get vista ultimate as i am eleigble for the free windows 7 upgrade from hp aswell and decide then such choices what am i to do lol

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