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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Intel: lol
 
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EnergizerFellow
Oct 11, 2005

More drunk than a barrel of monkeys

movax posted:

With FastBoot on, maybe. That was with the legacy support module active as well, so I think it will get faster as more and more legacy stuff goes poof (and Windows 8 supports EFI in all editions).
Windows has fully supported EFI on 64-bit editions since Vista SP1, aka Server 2008 (and Windows 2000 for Itanium, but who cares about that). Windows 7 will be the last 32-bit Windows. Server 2008 R2 is already 64-bit only.

If the Steam Hardware Survey is anything to go by, Windows 7 x64 installs already outnumber x86 by more than 3:1. x86 is rappidly going away as the default OEM install as machines cross 4GB RAM. That and x64 CPUs are now ubiquitous, even on the low-end, including Atoms. Hell, for Thinkspads from Lenovo x64 is the default install now.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Intel: lol