[ILUG] Speccing a new PC

[John P. Looney]

 64bit machines are a good bit faster than 32bit machines, for many
reasons.

 Not just that they are more future proof.

     http://www.tuxradar.com/content/ubuntu-904-32-bit-vs-64-bit-benchmarks
     http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=998&num=1

 Serious changes there. Yeah, you lose a little in extra big pointers, but
it's small fry. No reason not to.

John

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin at ul.ie>wrote:

> It's a while since I bought a new desktop. Last time round I decided
> against 64-bit on the grounds it was a bit too new, but should I go for
> it now?
>
> Main uses: general desktop, stats crunching, light web serving, Debian
> unstable.
>
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