Hi,

thanks for the answer.

This is a Sandybridge Mobile "Intel® Core™ i7-2640M CPU @ 2.80GHz × 4 "

How can I find out whether this is 64 bit-capable?

I have googled but not very successfully... I am afraid I am also
newbie in the tech jargon...

Pau

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Mike Erdely <m...@erdelynet.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Pau <vim.u...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I thought the same and downloaded the amd64 CD and tried to install it
>> but it would not boot. In my ignorance I supposed that it would be
>> impossible for a 32 bits CPU to do that, so I threw away the CD.
>
> More than likely, that means your CPU is 32-bit.  But, you could post
> a dmesg(8) if you didn't think you could figure that out and someone
> else could tell you if you have a 64-bit capable CPU.
>
> -ME
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