Thread: Time for a new hard drive

Originally Posted by MrTroy

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.

The average users isn't doing anything much audio/video encoding, scientific visualization, hardcore rendering, etc. In fact, the only reason applications would need to run 64-bit would be beefy applications such as databases etc.

The time we need to run soley 64-bit on our home PC's is a long time off.



Edit: What I'm trying to say is the word "64-bit processor" is such an over hyped word. Anyway, we derailed this thread.