My company is floating the idea of bumping all engineer workstations up to 8GB of RAM (yay!). However, most engineers are on 32-bit Windows XP, which maxes out at 4GB RAM (boo!)
Before I point this out, I want to prepare myself for the inevitable question “can we just install 64-bit Windows on everyone’s 32-bit hardware, and still see performance benefit from 8GB RAM?” I searched quite a bit, but for some reason all the question-and-answer is of some other permutation of os/cpu/app compatibility than the question I’m asking.
Thanks in advance!