[geeks] Windows XP 64bit Licensing?

[Dan Sikorski]

Around the time it was first released, you could sign up on Microsoft's 
website, and get a free "upgrade" from 32bit to 64bit. but some 
searching reveals that the deal is long gone:  
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/upgrade/default.mspx

Personally, 64bit XP is pretty quirky and i didn't like it, it was more 
of a downgrade than an upgrade.  64bit Vista is much more cohesive, in 
fact, i would say that if you want to run 64bit windows, run Vista.  If 
you have 3gb of ram and a nice video card, it should perform 
acceptably.  No, i'm not trying to flamebait here, i used 64bit xp for 
about a week before i got tired of it.  I've been running 64 bit Vista 
on my laptop for work since it was released in November, and it doesn't 
have those problems.  Granted, you'll NEED that 3GB of ram if you run Vista.

What graphics card do you have anyway?  Is Solaris an option?  Depending 
on your use of the machine, I would personally find it less painful to 
replace the graphics card than the OS.

    -Dan Sikorski

Michael Dombrowski wrote:
> Due to the lack of Linux support for my graphics card,
> and my desire to use more than 3gb of ram it seems
> that Windows XP x64 may be my only option... However,
> I have been lucky enough to have a (legal) copy of XP
> that does not have any of the "activation" garbage
> built-in and I am unwilling to deal with it. Does
> anyone know what if a copy of XP from Newegg will have
> the activation stupidity or if there is a way to get
> XP x64 without it?
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>
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