Thats why I typed that Ted. :) I am pretty sure the other things I need to run are OK in a 64 bit environment, although I need to check on a poker package. :) Thankfully I don't have any legacy stuff to contend with. If not there is always VM's, which is part of the reason I am looking at going with W7Pro. I haven't had VFP on my personal systems for 2+ years, but Now that I am writing more Fox code than .NET code I need to make sure it works on whatever I buy.
Stephen made a VERY valid point about memory. HP allows you to purchase 4GB with one or two chips. Getting 4GB in one chip costs more now, but in the future I could add another 4GB chip and save money in the long run. I could also go smaller on the HD and look at 8GB now, 500GB is a lot and I do have several external USB drives I can use to store things I am not currently using but want to have handy. ls -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] - Buying a Developers notebook (REVSITIED) On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Lou Syracuse <[email protected]> wrote: > Does VFP have any issues running in W7/64bit? I could always run it in a > VM (one of the advantages of Professional version, although I do have VMware > but would probably need to update to the latest version) > Any thoughts? Complaints? Snide remarks? Who can resist that invitation! 64-bit lets you use all 4 Gb of memory directly. With 32-bit, each OS is limited to 3Gb, but has it's own means of pretending to use more memory, using PAE or other stuff. It's better than the old LIMS Extended/Expanded memory games, but shouldn't be necessary. We're running VFP7 at one client site who's just updated to Win7/64 and haven't seen any problems. However, another client who's using some "legacy" 32-bit apps (Nuance's Omniform, among others, EOL'd at version 5) has had troubles using legacy 32-bit ODBC drivers (for MySQL). Installation and configuration of the 32-bit ODBC drivers is possible, but the access to the 32-bit interface took a few Google searches to find. So, VFP might be okay, and other apps could cause problems. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/042e01cb43a1$f5be82d0$e13b88...@com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
