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When my sister started grad school at Harvard she bought a brand new 64-bit Dell laptop from the school store that came preinstalled with 32-bit Windows. I was amazed.

I wiped the computer and installed a 64-bit OS, but there are definitely people out there selling 64-bit PCs running 32-bit Windows out of cluelessness.

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Haha. I helped out IT for a major corporation. This was only a few-ish years ago, but we were just moving to Windows 7 from XP.

It was funny, because the only XP image they had was 32 bit. So we had really new PCs (Dells that are now 5-7 years old) running on these 32bit machines, with no choice by their IT staff: they couldn't make a new image (was a "global IT" thing).

So, they gave us a Windows 7 image that was only 32bit. Fun getting that one sorted before it was on everyone's PCs.

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