AMB 64bit

[Roger Frye-2]

Best Buy is selling an HP laptop featuring an AMD 64bit chip.
Does anything use 64 bit?  Will Vista?  Do you get extra memory bandwidth  
even if you can't compute with 64 bits?
-Roger

[Douglas Roberts-2]

Mandrake, Suse, CENTOS (RHEL Enterprise 4 recompiled for 64-bit) all have
64-bit versions.  The Athlon-64 CPUs run 32-bit os's as well.  Don't know
what memory bandwidth you get with a 32 bit os, though.

--Doug

On 1/19/06, Roger Frye <rfrye at commodicast.com> wrote:

>
> Best Buy is selling an HP laptop featuring an AMD 64bit chip.
> Does anything use 64 bit?  Will Vista?  Do you get extra memory bandwidth
> even if you can't compute with 64 bits?
> -Roger
>
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[Parks, Raymond]

That laptop is running an AMD Turion, which is 64-bit, but the more interesting aspect of that is the power-saving capability.  You can get a beta version of Windows XP for 64-bit, there's a 2003 Advanced Server that is 64-bit, Vista will be 64-bit, and there are 64-bit Linux versions.


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Best Buy is selling an HP laptop featuring an AMD 64bit chip.
Does anything use 64 bit?  Will Vista?  Do you get extra memory bandwidth  
even if you can't compute with 64 bits?
-Roger


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[Robert Holmes-2]

Or if we consider a truly important application, Valve are due to release a
64-bit version of Half-Life 2 within a couple of weeks.

Robert

P.S. And we all know what the Black Mesa Research Facility is *really* based
on...

On 1/19/06, Parks, Raymond <rcparks at sandia.gov> wrote:

>
> That laptop is running an AMD Turion, which is 64-bit, but the more
> interesting aspect of that is the power-saving capability.  You can get a
> beta version of Windows XP for 64-bit, there's a 2003 Advanced Server that
> is 64-bit, Vista will be 64-bit, and there are 64-bit Linux versions.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of Roger Frye
> Sent: Thu 1/19/2006 9:25 AM
> To: Friam at redfish.com
> Subject: [FRIAM] AMB 64bit
>
> Best Buy is selling an HP laptop featuring an AMD 64bit chip.
> Does anything use 64 bit?  Will Vista?  Do you get extra memory bandwidth
> even if you can't compute with 64 bits?
> -Roger
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>
>
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[John Pfersich]

There are many more *nix applications that are 64 bit than Windows apps.
AFAIK, the trial version of XP x64 only lasts 120 days, then you need to
buy a copy. Under *nix, 32 bit apps dp run faster than on a 32 bit
computer, but 64 apps do run faster than the 32 bit ones do (in my
experience). 32 bit apps don't get a fatter pipe, but they can access the
memory above their max addressable space. YMMV, I have a Compaq Athlon
notebook from almost 2 years ago. It works VERY well as a server when
working at a client without a decent development environment.

At 09:52 AM 1/19/2006 -0700, Parks, Raymond wrote:

>That laptop is running an AMD Turion, which is 64-bit, but the more
>interesting aspect of that is the power-saving capability.  You can get a
>beta version of Windows XP for 64-bit, there's a 2003 Advanced Server that
>is 64-bit, Vista will be 64-bit, and there are 64-bit Linux versions.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of Roger Frye
>Sent: Thu 1/19/2006 9:25 AM
>To: Friam at redfish.com
>Subject: [FRIAM] AMB 64bit
>
>Best Buy is selling an HP laptop featuring an AMD 64bit chip.
>Does anything use 64 bit?  Will Vista?  Do you get extra memory bandwidth
>even if you can't compute with 64 bits?
>-Roger
>