cloning to new lappy

so eventually I've got my newly acquired lappy from the street corner to work ,had no hard drive in so bought a 512gig SSD, it only has 2gig ram so gonna add another 2gig soon (max the motherboard can handle). laptop keyboard doesn't work so gonna replace that it'll be cheap. ATM using external keyboard .
other than that everything works 100s
btw I 1st tried cloning with easeUS , free version, but at the end it seems its not free
then used macrium and cloned with no hitch everything perfect
all I gotto do now is deactivate my windows register key from old desktop then activate it on lappy .
slowly getting there lol
ima update system specs soon
thought id let everyone know

hsehestedt said:

A suggestion: Since the max that this system can handle is 4 GB, there's no real sense if running a 64-bit OS. My suggestion would be to run Win 10 32-bit to save yourself a small amount of system resources since every little bit will count for you.

Now, you mention cloning. Since that system had / has only 2 GB RAM currently, what OS is it even running? I would suspect that it is not running Win 10, or is it?

its running the same windows that was on my desktop ,win10,64 bit . Desktop had 3gig ram and was running fine ,even running quite nicely on 2gig now ,maybe the ssd helps yes ?
i did look into the 32bit option some time ago and it seems feasible, my only concern is what if i want to download some program that doesn't support 32bit ? and how do i change to 32 bit without loosing my registered key , i mean i don't want to buy windows again...

Malneb said:

32bit OS is deadlocking a 64bit computer regardless of 4gb physical ram or not. 2^address bits is what is accounted for in a basic sense and its way to much math after that.

32bit Operating system can only address 4GB where it is /2 between the system. Yes i understand the computer only has 4GB of ram but if it is a 64bit CPU you should use 64bit OS. its more functional, You lose some instructions if you don't and you lose features and performance the CPU becomes locked in. The computer does use more memory but its negligible.

Many applications are starting to move away from 32bit and in general 32bit software is phasing out it never fully go away in a parity sense will because we will never leave 64bit in our lifetime unless something really radical happens with computers. But it means if you lock yourself to 32bit then you miss out on 64bit where as on 64bit you can do both.

i don't see any real benefit why you would not use 64bit.

laptop is 64bit system, think i'll just stick with what I've got going now,it should run ok with 4gig ram as it was ok with 3gig before ,plus now the ssd should help .
if i want to change to 32 bit i'd have to do a clean install with 32bit version ,from what i could gather ...not in a mood for that hassle lol
thanks guys



EDIT: updated system specs in profile ....it's not much ,but it's working 100s

setup so far...
keyboard not fixed yet so using external atm
everything running smoooooothly lol