On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Liam Proven<[email protected]> wrote: > AMD are really struggling now. The Sledgehammer µarch was stunning and > killed Itanium; it moved the x86 world onto 64-bit, although 99% of > machines still run 32-bit S/W, just like for a decade, 99% of the > 32-bit 386 machines ran 16-bit S/W.
I assume you're using 99% in a "wave your hands" sort of way. I very much doubt that only 1% or less of the market is Apple Intel systems which I would consider to be essentially 64-bit in many respects now. And when a majority of those system move to Snow Leopard .... which seems likely given Apple's aggressive pricing ... they will probably be as 64-bit as you're going to get a system with an x86-64 processor to be. I'm not sure what the thinking is over at Microsoft, but it looks as though they're also moving in that direction. The Windows 7 install media will apparently contain *both* the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. They won't be sold separately any longer. None of this will immediately change the fact that a majority of the x86-64 systems out there will *still* be running in 32-bit mode. I'm just saying that a lot more than 1% of them will move to 64-bit mode. It took a long time to build up momentum, but I think from this point on the switch over is only going to move faster. -irrational john --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
