You bring up an interesting point. My neighbor just purchased a new laptop that has a 64 bit processor. Can XPee Home even take advantage of a 64 bit processor?
She's already fed up with the anti-virus she is using and has already asked about Linux (after hearing me yap about it for years now). Hopefully she'll pull the trigger and I can intall Ubuntu as a social expirement. I'd really like to see how well a seriously non-techincal person manages with Ubuntu. On 7/28/06, Kevin Flanagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That would have to fall in the "that depends" category. What would you be doing with the system, for a laptop, I see that HP now has a Turion 64Bit laptop, interesting if you could take advantage of the processor. If you are using much CPU to Memory transfer intensive applications, then AMD has the edge, otherwise I don't think that it matters as much. What about the other stuff, that says more in many cases. What disks are available, SATA, or PATA, or SCSI? What Video subsystem suits your needs best? How much RAM can you get for the system in question? As usual, there's a lot more to the "best" answer, generally I think that if you get a top tier system now it's likely enough for 95% or more of folks, unless you're just that kind of geek who needs to spec out every last detail. Then there's cost..... Kevin Greg Brown wrote: > It was not long ago at all, just last year, that the prevailing > opinion of > those on Trilug seemed to be that AMD was leading the way for chip design > for the foreseeable future. With Intel's latest announcements, along > with > the Core Duo, I was wondering what the consensus opinion was these days. > > If you were going to build a linux desktop or laptop what processor would > you pick? Intel, AMD, or something else? > > 3.... 2..... 1..... FIGHT!! -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
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