Request for update please........
Request for update please........
I've done the google searching, I've read the M/S website, I've searched other sites - and even the comments here.
I'm still not sure about 64 bit vs 32 bit.
Background - not completely illiterate with IT, but Mike B and mixture are premier league compared to my junior southern counties league standard. (Or, more appropriately, given the forthcoming events in Kiwi-country, I'm Broughton Park 5th team to their Wasps 1st team).
Currently on XP SP3 on an old AMD Sempron with c 750 RAM.
It does the easy stuff - Net, e-mail, i-tunes, photos, very well. I even graduated from OE to O as a result of help from pprune. BUT - it doesn't do 2 or more things at once. if it does, they are slow.
Playing with videos is excruciatingly slow, and some simple actions with videos scare the little men in the box so much that they all lie down at the same time, and only the "off" switch makes the pc work.
So I want to upgrade and future proof myself. I understand that an i5 2310 or 2500 will do nicely, (I'm not a gamer) and that if I go for 32 bit, there is no point in getting any more than 4gb RAM. If I get 64 bit and 8 gb RAM then it might be better/quicker/smoother and all that - and, allegedly, it will future proof me.
Er, is it worth it? The expense isn't the issue, I'm just scared about things not working cos of the 64 bit label.....
Help, and update, please.
thank you
AO