Quote Originally Posted by Neal View Post
Vista 64-bit still eats resources, but it recognizes the proper amount of ram, 32-bit XP had the issue with not seeing 4gb of ram, but the 64-bit was fine.
And yes, 32-bit Windows cannot see more than 4GB of RAM whereas 64-bit can support up to I think it's 128GB. 64bit also uses a bit more ram. That being said, if you aren't really doing much but screwing around with the OS it's completely possible to run Win7 64-bit with only 1GB of RAM.