[BBLISA] What to do with a RAM-heavy desktop?

[Nathan Faust]

Scott, 

Have you looked into Windows XP x86-64?  If you need to stay in the
Windows world, that would be the way to go.
 
Nathan.
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Nathan Faust
Systems Administrator :: Merchant Warehouse
www.MerchantWarehouse.com



 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org 
> [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich
> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 7:26 AM
> To: bblisa at bblisa.org
> Subject: [BBLISA] What to do with a RAM-heavy desktop?
> 
> So I have a 32 GB, dual quad-core processor desktop to 
> configure.   It 
> seems like likely I'd install 32-bit Windows XP on it, with 
> respect to the user needing Adobe Acrobat, Illustrator, and 
> Photoshop, along with Matlab (which we have Linux versions 
> of) and Mathematica (which we can get Linux versions of, too).
> 
> But with 32-bit Win XP with SP2, we waste 28 GB, as it can 
> only use 4 GB.
> 
> The user is equally Unix-capable, and I could easily install 
> 64-bit CentOS, but how could I enable them to fully take 
> advantage of the Adobe products on the system natively (i.e 
> w/o using a VM)?
> 
> Crossover Office does NOT show the Adobe products as 
> supported apps in their tested list.
> 
> What to do...
> 
> Insights welcome.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Scott
> 
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