jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Jun 8 19:10:45 CDT 2004
BTW, I think I have seen people running Linux on this machine. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Francisco H Tapia Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 7:47 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Laptop Recommendation jwcolby wrote On 6/8/2004 1:59 PM: >Rocky, > >This is a true 64 bit machine. > I don't remember if the AMD64(Opteron's) are 32 bit w/ 64bit extention hybrids internal dual cores that choose to run 32/64bit as requested. In anycase, they run natively in either platform. >64 bit software doesn't exist yet, although >Windows 64 is in beta. > well not retail windows anyways... http://www.suse.com/us/private/index.html and then there's Mandrake 10.0 >No apps yet. But they are coming. In 10 years, 64 >bit will be where 32 bit is today. Will you see any speed advantage >due to 64 bit today. No, not a bit. But the proc itself holds up well >to Intel's best running 32 bit apps, and as the 64 bit stuff comes >along, it will be able to run it. Personally I wouldn't pay a premium >for it, but then I didn't! > I can't find anything currently that is 64bit based that is not SERVER only software... :| -- -Francisco _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com