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Originally Posted by id10t
Depends on the hardware and which vendor you bought it from - 64bit support started with XP. And PAE also started with XP on 32bit systems, so you could use more than 4gb but any single process was limited to 4gb. Kinda like himem.sys on DOS ....
For a Win7 level machine, the best upgrade would be to Linux Mint w/ MATE desktop or some other Linux distro with a lightweight desktop (NOT Gnome3/Unity or KDE, one is ugly and unusable, the other a resource hog)
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Interesting thought. I could convert my old desktop to MINT.