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"6 GIGS OF MEM IS USELESS ON 32 bit OS"
Pros: rips like a 32 bit system
Cons: got conned out of 2 gigs of memory
Summary: With 2GB X 2 sticks and then 1G of on board Intel hyper memory and then the gig of mem on the video card i have a total of six GB of memory. Well, great, but the but the Area-51 m15x will only ship with a 32 bit os. When i confronted the lovely folks over at alienware they told me the Mother Board drivers only support a 32 bit computing and there were no plans to rectify the situation. when i ordered the system i naively assumed that no choice between os's meant that the default was 64 bit seeing as all the cpu's were quad core. i was sadly mistaken. Their motto is build it as if it were our own, well if i was building a system, which i usually do, i know i wouldn't buy 2 extra gigs of memory and then put a 32 bit os on top of a quad core processor with ddr2 memory, (Not to mention a shoddy case). To me it sounds more like build it as if you were owned by dell.
