Preferred Architecture for Centrino Core Duo

[John Summerfield]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Zhukov Pavel wrote:
>> On Dec 3, 2007 5:50 PM, Jeremy Nix <Jeremy.Nix at sfsltd.com> wrote:
>>> I was reading the Fedora 8 documentation and came across section 3.2
>>> that recommends that the x86_64 architecture to be used for the Centrino
>>> Core Duo processors.
>> Core Duo it's a x86 processor. it doesn't support x86_64.
>>
>> Core 2 Duo it's a x86_64 and support 64bit technology.
> 
> My lappie has a Centrino Duo sticker on it, and was very happy running
> the F8 X86_64 live DVD, so I would assume that your blanket statement
> above needs some tweaking.  Some Core Duo CPUs *are* 64-bit capable.


Anyone who cares should check www.intel.com. It's what I did before 
buying (I wanted virtualisation support).





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