Vista 32 bit will allow the use of 4G of RAM. (It fakes it from 3.2 and up.)
Vista 64 bit will allow more RAM than 4G.
Vista 64 is more "fussy" about what drivers it will allow to be used.
That is about all I would "worry about".
Rick Glazier
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From: "Larry Scroggs"
>I am shopping for a new laptop during the after Christmas sales and I see many of the laptops come with Windows Vista Home Premium
>64 bit as the operating system. My current desktop machine is running Windows XP Professional 32 bit. What are the benefits and
>disadvantages of buying a machine with the 64 bit OS? Thanks for your help.
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