Hardware experiences?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Sep 11 14:13:39 UTC 2006


On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:04:16PM -0400, Simon wrote:
> In my humble opinon, sticking with 32-bit is much, much easier, unless
> you have too much RAM.  Too much closed source crap to worry about,
> and it doesn't make a significant difference in performance.  I mean,
> of course, some people aren't doing it for that reason, they just want
> to early-adopt, and then my logic is irrelevant..  Also, I only tried
> 64-bit stuff when I was still a bit of a newb.

Sticking with 32bit software may still make sense for many people.
Staying with 32bit hardware when buying new hardware is nuts.  Why buy
something that won't work with 64bit software when it becomes mature?

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