November 07, 2005

• um ...... all of them? Is this going to be on the midterm?
• There's a handy little comparator at intel's site. Using that, I determined that: Pentium Processor Extreme Edition 840 Pentium D Processor 840 Pentium D Processor 830 Pentium D Processor 820 Pentium 4 Processor Extreme Edition supporting Hyperthreading Technology Pentium 4 Processor 670 supporting HT Technology Pentium 4 Processor 660 supporting Hyper-Threading Technology Pentium 4 Processor 650 supporting Hyper-Threading Technology Pentium 4 Processor 640 supporting Hyper-Threading Technology Pentium 4 Processor 630 supporting Hyper-Threading Technology Pentium 4 Processor 571 Supporting Hyper-Threading Technology Pentium 4 Processor 561 Supporting Hyper-Threading Technology Pentium 4 Processor 551 Supporting Hyper-Threading Technology Pentium 4 Processor 541 Supporting Hyper-Threading Technology Pentium 4 Processor 531 Supporting Hyper-Threading Technology Pentium® 4 Processor 521 Supporting Hyper-Threading Technology All support 64-bit, and there may be some more that I couldn't scroll to. Why do you ask?
• *gives Koko an F minus minus to the ultra infinity*
• *gives mct an apple with a worm in it*
• What, four posts and no one has said that AMD is better and only loosers use Intel???
• cool thanks Sandspider.
• goddam geeks
• AMD's stock has done well for me this year. Does that count?
• Hey, if we're done, can I threadjack? My father's looking to buy a new laptop, and was curious as to whether he should go ahead and spend the extra for a 64-bit system. At first I said sure, software will start going that way in the next year, might as well stay ahead of the curve. Now I ain't so sure. Turns out the 64-bit version of XP not only sucks ass for hardware, but also may actually run 32-bit programs slower than the 32-bit OS. Which means he won't be using a 64-bit OS for awhile, so he'll effectively be wasting that extra juice for months, until after Longhorn comes out. Is there a good reason for him to go ahead and spend the cash? And no, no way in hell he'll switch to Macs or Linux. This is a business machine, chock full of Win software that he needs to use.
• MCT, what's he going to be doing with the laptop? The biggest question is, will he need to access more than 2-4 GB of RAM (I forget which, and I don't feel like calculating it or looking it up right now)at any given time? That's the big reason for 64-bit. It won't run anything faster, in fact, it'll run things slower. It won't let you run any programs you wouldn't otherwise run. It's just for people who are working with data that needs to be really, really large, such as scientific data or big, big image files. If he's going to be running excel, word, powerpoint, etc. then he won't need 64-bit.
• I am gonna have to disagree and put my two cents in. I remember when the 286 (16bit) died and became worthless. I think you're going to see over the next two years developers writing code for only 64Bit architectures. If you invest in 32 Bit now, come January I think 32Bit will be off the market. I am buying a bunch of machines for an Internet Cafe. I am an A+ certified PC technician and I switched to Mac about 2 years ago with Mac OS X. So I haven't been keeping up on x86 architecture... until recently :-) when Jobs announced the chip switch. The machines I am gonna build are going to be Mac OS X, Linux and Windows XP and Vista compatible. See I think we are on the doorstep of another computer peak with 64 Bit. Windows is crap so if Apple goes and licenses Mac OS X for clone PCs I will have boxen that work with Apple's current driver support. (Or I may hack it on there anyway) I am also working on an Internet cafe version of Linux for my end users. Basically with the windows what I am doing is every night I re-image the systems because at the end of the day they are bogged down with weather bug, porno spy ware, and page hijackers that they are useless. 2003 Server doesn't help much either... rambling. So long story short 64 Bit will be the next standard any thing else will be outmoded and worthless for new apps. You'll have no problem running any ms 32 bit apps on a 64-bit boxen.
• WHile 64 bit may be the future of computing, for laptops, the best chips are intel and I don't know if they have any 64bit laptop chips. Moreover, I have Windows 64x on my main computer and 1)haven't seen any reason to use it. and 2)there are more than a few times where I've had to reboot back into plain old 32bit xp to do stuff. My camera and scanner don't work -- admittedly both are kind of old. The camera is 3 years and the scanner is 4 years. My 1year-old HP laser printer will print one document, but when I want to print out a second document I will get an error page printed and have to turn the printer off and back on. Since laptops are seen as obsolete within two years anyway, I wouldn't bother right now. There still aren't more than a handfull of 64bit apps. Even Microsoft makes you use the 32bit IE for WIndows update!
• Pentium M is 64bit as I understand it. AMD Turion is 64bit for sure. Both are in laptops. If you get a a 64Bit machine you can run windows XP 32 bit on it until manufactures update their driver support. Don't buy 32Bit, mark my words! /spooky music plays...
• 5 Years ago I sold a 486 with DOS for $50 to some Jehovah witnesses that were trying to bring me the lord. "Oh yeah this thing works great! Your daughter will be able to do all her schoolwork on it!" Is that wrong?
• LokiSpeak - only if it was a 486sx.
• Hey - that's great idea, Loki! Let's see... what can I sell to those people that knock at my door at 9:00 a.m. on sundays, while dragging two bored-looking kids...?