Toshiba lt wants to upgrade to windows 7... need advice please.

Hi, thank you for your time to look at this with me...

**my question**: I am advised to upgrade with the 32-bit W7 I thought my computer was 64-bit (?)

The advisor says I have the option to, through a "custom installationâ€, go with the 64-bit W7. Pls help me understand what the difference is between the 32/64 bit w7 (besides numbers guys);

I want to go with the 64-bit option. So what is involved in doing the "custom" installation?

When I ran my computer through the w7 upgrade advisor, I got a few thumbs up, I can upgrade to the 32-bit w7; speed, ram, and space are compliant as well.

The "˜advisor’ flagged the part that my computer is a "˜Toshiba satellite laptop x200’.
Went to the manufacturer’s home page and let me tell you, their electronic advice was vague at best; hence why I am now here, at this forum.

I used Belarc Analysis to get hopefully the right information for someone here to explain a couple of things; (My major excuse for being glued to my laptop this badly is that I do a lot of digital editing, online courses, and sourcing out information / major surfing).

TOSHIBA Satellite X200 PSPB9C-FG108C
Board: TOSHIBA ISRAA 1.00
BIOS: TOSHIBA V2.20 01/09/2008
1.67 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
3070 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'M1' has 2048 MB
Slot 'M2' has 1024 MB


c: (NTFS on drive 0) 192.89 GB 135.57 GB free
l: (NTFS on drive 1) 2000.40 GB 1912.05 GB free

NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT [Display adapter]
Generic PnP Monitor (17.2 "vis)

PS. I ahve done hours of homework; i'm tired of all this and just wanna get'r done. I am all ready to go, recovery disks are made, every bit of data has been backed up to a terabyte external drive, have things written down to make this a safe journey!

 

This article should tell you all you need to know.


http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/32-bit-and-64-bit-Windows-frequently-asked-questions

 

in short, 64-bit is still relativly new and most applications are still 32-bit. main advantage of 64-bit is being able to use over 3GB of ram. if you want to run a lot of memeory intesive applications, such as graphic adobe stuff, and you have 4GB of memory or more, then it is a good idea. adobe has 64-bit versions of their software.
but for most people there is no need to use 64-bit..

 

vista to W7 thanx!

Hey,

Thank you for the input & link for more information, I totally get it. Now... the courage to actually "do" this. I think a few more cup-a joes... I will be back to let you know how it went.

Cheers