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There are no 64 bit applications in that you would use at this time. The only 64 bit apps are things like Industrial Light and Magics software for 3D morphing effects.
There are NO major virus software venders or firewall ones with an app that works in a 64 bit environment. Why? Because those apps use low level code to run in 32 bit and it hasn't been converted yet. So you will not be able to use McAfee or Norton or Blackice or etc...
The improvements on 32bit apps are so minimal that the above problems will piss you off and you will revert back.
There are HUGE problems with drivers. Especially in high end very techinical systems like graphics cards that cost over $80... I am sure most of us spent more than that on our cards.
Almost all of the coolest games will not play in 64bit. Graphics drivers, lower level code and snippets of 16bits code that will not run.
There is absolutely no support for 16bit (win95) or 8bit (dos) programs. So you cannot use any of those programs at all.
In other words.. we are about 2 years away from moving there and you will actually feel shackled instead of released to move there now.
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