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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. Subscribers can see it early... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Subscribers can see it early...

    Oh wait, SUPRISE!

    They can't.

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

    Ask the Mac G5 users ...

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  3. Re:Intel will have to follow AMD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It would be a bad move from Intel if they implemented Amd64. Let's face it, most people will follow Intel no matter what. When Athlons were faster than Intel chips, people were still buying Intel. Now that AMD has still a much better price/performance ratio, people are still buying Intel. Amd has less then 15% of the market and Amd64 is only a fraction of this. Amd64 has no significance. Amd64 will probably go the same way as "3D now".

    If Intel follow AMD then this would give some credibility to AMD. And this is the last thing Intel wants. As for compatibility... who cares ? Do you really think Microsoft or any other company will refuse to make a special version for Intel ?

  4. Re:Actual Performance Difference by pboulang · · Score: -1, 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?
    I couln't agree with you more. Yes, I spent the time the reply with a "me, too".
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  5. 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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