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beardedmacuser
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: eastmidlandshire
 
2005-10-24, 07:23

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Originally Posted by Brad
Also, 64-bitness is greatly over-hyped by marketing departments and spec whores. Almost no software on the desktop actually takes advantage of 64-bit operations. Only specialty applications need more than 32 bits of precision. Don't mention the greater amount of addressable memory because most notebooks can't even fit more than can be addressed by 32-bit processors.
I've only ever seen one real-life example here at work where 64 bit was a noticeable improvement. And that was for a stupidly huge 3D model created in realtime from lots of 2D images. And they had something crazy like 16 or 32 gigs of RAM (it was a 64 bit Windows machine on a quad-Opteron beast). That kind of thing simply wasn't possible with 32 bit.
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