# What's the least amount of computer I can get away with?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 17, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-amount-of-computer-i-can-get-away-with/585839 "2011-06-17T15:17:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-amount-of-computer-i-can-get-away-with/585839/21 "2011-06-20T18:21:02Z")

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> [@E.Thorp](#):
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> **Bosstone** , the model you linked to does go to 4GB and has a nice big hard drive…but it’s Windows 32-bit, not 64-bit. Pardon my naive question, but is this a big difference, or is it easy/hard to upgrade?

If the CPU is 64-bit, you can upgrade pretty easily. It’ll just cost.

However, the 1215N-PU27, which is what I linked to, most certainly does have Windows 64-bit. The product description is incorrect.

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**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-amount-of-computer-i-can-get-away-with/585839/22 "2011-06-21T05:43:59Z")

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> [@Bosstone](#):
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> However, the 1215N-PU27, which is what I linked to, most certainly does have Windows 64-bit. The product description is incorrect.

It must be incorrect at some content source, then, because the same information is given at every store and review I’ve found so far. Still, this one’s my front-runner. Thanks.

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