Quote Originally Posted by sudo View Post
There's no reason a home user should be running a 64-bit OS. It doesn't make any sense, you get no up front advantages that you can see - only headaches.
That's the way it is going, the rest of the world needs to catch up in terms of the way they write software, based on the information available today Microsoft next OS will also be x86 and x64, but the OS after that will be only x64. I agree that the average home user would get more headache then benefit from it as this point, but until the industry forces people to 64 bit we stay stagnant, the x86 architecture has been around since 1978 - it is time to move on and allow greater things. Once ALL software is truly 64 bit we can finally take advantage of our processors that we are using... all these x64 processor's and no one using them at their potential.