blog: you can keep your 64 bits

[loki]

I do 3D graphics for a living, and though I agree 3gigs of RAM is enough for most purposes, it is nowhere near enough for most of the stuff we do: Keeping a copy of Photoshop, another of Nuke, yet another of Maya open for easy switching/tuning the output, a couple of test renders chugging along in the background (low priority, of course) together can eat up a lot of RAM (some heavy scenes, even after optimisation, can gobble up around 4-6 gigs while rendering).  So yes, x64 is a Good Thing, at least for me.  x86 with the 3GB (total) ceiling is nowhere near enough.

x64 is better for 32bit programs too: it means they can access up to 3GB each, without having to share it with every other program and the OS, like it would have had to do on x86.

Just my 2 cents..