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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What really makes Win XP obsolete is the built-in limits Microsoft put into 32-bit Windows. So if you want or need more then 3gigs of ram, you HAVE to go to a 64-bit Windows and to do that, you have to start over with a 64-bit Windows.
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What?!?
That is NOT an arbitrary limitation. A 32-bit system can only address 4 GB of RAM, and the OS needs to reserve part of that for itself, thus the 3GB limit. 32 bit Windows DOES support PAE to have access to a full 4GB, and the reasons why it's limited to 4 GB isn't arbitrary:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussi...1/3092070.aspx