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Windows XP 64-Bit Customer Preview Program

Posted by michael on from the bleeding-edge-pain dept.

MBCook writes "I just notice that Microsoft has a new Windows XP 64-Bit Customer Preview Program starting today (February 3rd). If you have a AMD Opteron or Athlon64, you can go to the download page to get your copy. It's a pre-release copy that will expire in 360 days (which probably means the final will be out by then). Now Intel just changed their 64-bit plans, and all of a sudden this appears. Speculate away!"

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  1. Re:Actual Performance Difference by Greedo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ask the Mac G5 users ...

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  2. Re:Actual Performance Difference by nfgaida · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The big issue for me are the cases where the stupid machine just locks up and does fuck all for 20 seconds or so. CPU meter shows 3% utilization, no disk activity. What is the stupid thing doing?

    Same here. I experience this quite often on my dual AMD 1800 box at work (winxp). Often a ctrl-alt-del will show (explorer.exe) as "not responding". Frustrating.

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