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On 17/09/10 18:30, Neil Winchurst wrote:
On 17/09/10 12:07, Julian Hall wrote:
OK. But any new computer I buy nowadays will almost certainly be 64 bit, right? Or is that not so? Neil
You'd be hard pushed to find a PC with a brand new up to date CPU that wasn't 64-Bit capable. I know AMD CPUs have been 64-Bit now for ages (the early Socket 754 Semprons were 32-Bit only) and Intel have been 64-Bit too for a long while on most of the range (not sure about the early Atoms, maybe someone could comment?).
I'd be surprised now if you went into a shop and bought a system that wasn't 64-Bit capable (even the single core 2.2Ghz Celeron M 900 is 64-Bit capable now.
What you're more likely to find is CPUs that don't support virtualisation extensions (which speeds up things like VMWare and Virtual Box) such as AMD-V or Intel-VT. Most AMD chips support AMD-V but there's a fair few Intel chips out there which don't support Intel-VT.
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