Just like Hanselman, I was a bit apprehensive in deciding to install 64 bit Vista on my new machine. What would be different? Would my drivers work? What would break that I totally depend on in my toolbox?

My new machine happens to be a Dell Latitude D830. The driving factor behind installing Vista64 on it was the fact that 32 bit Vista on this platform can only address 3G or so of RAM and I bought 4G to go into the box. I had to either live with 1G of un-addressable RAM in my machine or go 64 bit. New millennium, here I come.

THIS THING SCREAMS. As an example, this is the fastest blog post I have ever written.

Conversely, installing the base system has taken about 3 days of waiting. Jeesh.

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David Starr