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Old February 2nd 07, 02:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Slugsie
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Default 4GB of ram

Not exactly. 32bit Windows supports up to a maximum 4GB of addressable
memory. But that does not equate to 4GB of addressable RAM. The upper 800MB
or so is reserved for hardware paging of devices and such, and can't be used
for RAM.

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"Waldosr" wrote in message
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Ok i was looking at getting the 64-bit version and found this:
"All editions of Windows Vista 64-bit provide increased memory support
beyond the standard 4 gigabytes (GB) available with 32-bit editions. Refer
to
the specific edition of Windows Vista 64-bit to determine maximum memory
capacity."

Is this a lie?
Here is the url
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...ons/64bit.mspx