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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. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GNAA is 64-bit yummy

    i love you guys

    #gnaa on EFNET

    1. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Wow I made it!

      I'd like to thank Jesus, all of my niggers in GNAA, God, Mom and Dad, oh i'm not good at writing speeches.

  2. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP!

  3. no FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this is not a FP

  4. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP!! oh yeah you suck

  5. noooooooooo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i don't care!

  6. Outrage! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    About copied the whole Linux Games Directory?!

    Even more unbelievable is that About.Com is linked on the front page of Slashdot. Do you know how many pop-ups and sponsored links are on that pile? Their servers can take a slashdotting and their ad impressions will hapilly be accounted for.

  7. what does it mean anyway? by simonharvey · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    apart from a larger address space how is it really going to change things?

    my freebsd box has 1G of ram and Im wondering how much of that i really need.

    64K bla bla bla...

  8. How much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought about it, but I really can't see paying for another copy of Windows. I own copies of 2000 and XP (the latter isn't even installed on anything) but frankly, to shell out another 200 dollars for an OS update is almost as insane as 500 dollars for Office (again, I own copies of Office 2000 and XP of which I dropped both for OpenOffice). Now if Intuit would take a hint and release a copy of Quicken for Linux, I'd be all set to drop the legacy windows workstation. Wishfull thinking I guess.

  9. Gupik Gaboo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hey hey hey, it's faaaaaaaaat nutsack!

    and I'm gonna spooge a nut for you...,
    and bills gonna do you chick where she poos!!!

    -teh fat nutsack!

    (boxen)

  10. Re:I only get one every other day... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Propz to logged in trolls. I hope you get anal warts and are busted fapping to horse porn.

  11. when exactly..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    .....would this be ontopic???

  12. It's not that great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Windows XP on Athlon64 fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of an Athlon64 with Windows XP for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Athlon64, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that. In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Word is straining to keep up as I type this. I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Athlon64's and Opterons, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen an Opteron that has run faster than its 32-bit counterpart, despite the Opteron's faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 3400+ machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Athlon64 is a superior machine. Athlon64 addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Athlon64 over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.