64bit or 32bit for my laptop
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Mar 12 03:29:37 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 11:26 +0800, Meng Qiu wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Petrus de Calguarium
> <kwhiskerz at gmail.com> wrote:
> David Hláčik wrote:
> > Will this sacrifice me ;)?
> > David
> I cannot comment on the suitability of your graphic card or
> your intended
> use of the system, nor do I know exactly how your T5550
> @1,83Ghz, 4GB
> DDR2 compares to my Core 2 Duo E6320 @1,86Ghz, 4GB DDR2, but I
> switched in the last 2 days and I notice improvements (not
> mind-blowing) in
> general day-to-day use (installing, video conversion, web use,
> etc.). I have
> not had to resort to any heroic measures, not with multimedia,
> nor flash,
> etc. It was all standard fare, same as setting up 32-bit.
>
> I don't think this will "sacrifice you" ;)
>
> Surely,
> so many applications don't support 64bit Linux platform, especially
> the multimedia apps.
> If you just use it for work, it will work.
> If you hope use it for entertainment, you have a lot of hard work to
> do.
>
> Anyway, it's a chance to learn many things!
> Just DIY!!!
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actually - all of the multimedia apps that I ever use have 64 bit
versions. That hardly seems to be an issue.
Craig
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