From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FOlC1-0001fm-Ez for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:39:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2U0cUk2018784; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:38:30 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.232]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2U0YJrD021226 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:34:20 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so576002wri for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:34:19 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FoAC52VPEzWtaw3Kwdi/PdY4lrzaB5PsxtTgh/TOcEwbnB8sMbCSwMOxBU+xkZQ/KXrXZ6yMzdITf+jh6Ra57LAwXEfMdbMdLWZGvLKs7XfbFT0+2sd8x/ixILGLglIZ2ntDzJ2YQMmVJrwlwE0SDs4Jv5M6XTcpJZY4F3N2F1c= Received: by 10.54.86.11 with SMTP id j11mr1593577wrb; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:34:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.126.6 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:34:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640603291634v2f22f489t4ca3448c3e683b09@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:34:19 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone? In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <1143616641.29453.15.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <7573e9640603282355t7ab5a526tfd619e0c9c45a03@mail.gmail.com> <1143646905.21205.31.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <7573e9640603290845h3bedb131m209cc6323aee5848@mail.gmail.com> <442B0C32.3090609@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2U0YJrD021226 X-Archives-Salt: de4d3267-53bf-418c-9d98-de64d1848ade X-Archives-Hash: 7768c6b78f22a781769e48e81c40943c On 3/29/06, michael@michaelshiloh.com wrote: > How soon do you think we'll see laptops with the Dual Core Turion64? Summer. Got to have them out in time for back-to-school purchasing, right? > > Elsewhere (perhaps on this list on a different topic) someone > recommended not buying anything except for 64 bits (either AMD or Intel) > from now on. Do you agree, in particular regarding laptops? No, but others are going to disagree with me! Nobody is currently producing laptops that can have over 4G of memory (in fact, 2G is the max today in a laptop). And for my AMD desktop at home, I don't see much difference between 64 and 32-bit programs. The programs I am most interested in running fast are compression, encryption, media encoding, and the like...standard desktop type uses. Some things are slightly faster in 32-bit, some things are slightly faster in 64-bit, but neither mode seems to have a definitive advantage. So unless and until you require more memory or specific applications, I don't think you need to worry about 64-bit. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list