64-bit computing is going to get more support,"This is going to be a really wonderful transition," says
Bill Gates in his keynote yesterday at
WinHEC. Thanks to
AMD and
Intel we have the chips, but the software is not there yet. I built an AMD
64-FX box eight months ago and it's still running beta
WindowsXP-64 software. Did you know you can add 16gigs of RAM to these machines? It boggles the mind, that we can each own a PC as powerful as that. Now we need software, and lots of it! 64-bit drivers are almost nonexistent now, but hopefully with the encouragement from Microsoft things will start falling into place in the race to 64-bit computing. Are you ready?