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Windows Vista 64-bit is currently the best-available technology for Windows users and facilitates full RAM memory addressing above 3gb, which is all but essential in 2008. It is also in many other ways a more efficient operating system than its 32-bit counterpart, and the number of PCs that have gone with 64-bit installations has increased dramatically. Many argue that Vista itself should have just gone 64-bit exclusively so as to prevent companies like HP from dragging their feet and claiming "full" Vista support, without taking the minor effort to ensure 64-bit compatibility. (Although it is a larger undertaking to re-write software to take advantage of a 64-bit platform, it is a very minor and elementary task to ensure that a 32-bit application simply can work on a 64-bit platform within its 32-bit "emulation.")

I encourage everyone to start posting about this immediately. The only way that HP will add 64-bit support is if all the major blogs, such as Engadget and Gizmodo and CNET, tag this product's release with, "CONS: No support for 64-bit computers."

HP surely will emphasize that some functions that do not depend on the connected computer, such as viewing pictures, will still work for 64-bit users. But, ahem, the product is literally titled "Connect."

Get with it, HP.
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