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To: ild who wrote (43708)	12/31/2005 3:37:08 PM
From: regli	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

>For the life of me I don't understand why would anyone want to be an early adopter of Microsoft's bugware.< I am not a Microsoft fan at all. However, 64 bit Linux has been around since 1995 and assuming the drivers are available for your hardware, has been shaken down quite well. devx.com The reason why I advocate 64 bit hardware is the fact that 64 bit software will become mainstream within the next 1 to 2 years. It is already on Linux but has a few more iterations to go on Windows. You can run 32 bit Windows XP without problems on an AMD64 or EMT64 box but once you want to switch you can. Intel Yonah, once released early next year, is a 32 bit processor and therefore in terms of hardware architecture obsolete in short order. Merom, it's 64 bit follow on, is slated for introduction by fall and broad availability by the end of 2006. My point was, why purchase something that will be old iron within less than one year if you can purchase a 64 bit mobile processor today in the AMD Turion.