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On 3/29/06, michael@×××××××××××××.com <michael@×××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> How soon do you think we'll see laptops with the Dual Core Turion64? |
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Summer. Got to have them out in time for back-to-school purchasing, right? |
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> Elsewhere (perhaps on this list on a different topic) someone |
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> recommended not buying anything except for 64 bits (either AMD or Intel) |
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> from now on. Do you agree, in particular regarding laptops? |
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No, but others are going to disagree with me! |
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Nobody is currently producing laptops that can have over 4G of memory |
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(in fact, 2G is the max today in a laptop). And for my AMD desktop at |
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home, I don't see much difference between 64 and 32-bit programs. The |
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programs I am most interested in running fast are compression, |
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encryption, media encoding, and the like...standard desktop type uses. |
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Some things are slightly faster in 32-bit, some things are slightly |
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faster in 64-bit, but neither mode seems to have a definitive |
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advantage. |
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So unless and until you require more memory or specific applications, |
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I don't think you need to worry about 64-bit. |
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-Richard |
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