i have this laptop Dell Inspiron 6400 with Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor T5600 (1.83GHz/667MHz FSB/2MB L2 Cache) 2GB RAM.
Can i setup windows 7 64bit on this machine? or it will be too slow?
i have this laptop Dell Inspiron 6400 with Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor T5600 (1.83GHz/667MHz FSB/2MB L2 Cache) 2GB RAM.
Can i setup windows 7 64bit on this machine? or it will be too slow?
A tool you can use to find out if your CPU has 64bit capabilities is SecurAble
The Core 2 Duo Processor can, to my knowledge, suupport 64 bit OS.
Unfortunately, you may still only have access to ~3.2GB of RAM, if the chipset supporting the CPU does not support more memory. I, and many others, were disappointed with Dell for stating that some of its laptops, like my D820, could handle 4 GB of RAM when in fact only ~3.2 GB could be addressed.
In short, it's not so much the specs, such as GHz and L2 Cache, but rather the CPU and the supporting chipset (e.g., North Bridge, South Bridge) architecture that determines if a machine can run 64 bit OS.
You should be able to run it fine, I tried running windows 7 on a desktop with half those specs and it worked well.
If you only have 2GB of RAM, there is no reason to install a 64-bit OS.
You will not see any performance differences between the two. The only reason to go with a 64-bit OS is if you have 4+ GB of RAM installed. Regarding the other answer posted, a 64-bit OS will always allow you access to all 4GB of RAM. 3.2GB is the limit of a 32-bit OS due to overhead.