Question:
64 bit or Duo???
What would be a better choice for a laptop for the future. The duos appear to be in the majority of laptops yet they are not 64bit. The Turions are there but also come with sub-par GPUs.
What would be the better choice? Or would waiting be best since AMD bought out ATI and we could be expecting great combos of GPU and CPU?
Answer:
Re: 64 bit or Duo???
Well, if you can wait a couple of months... notebooks with CoreDuo2 (Merom) - 64 bits should be coming out .... In any case... it seems that for the notebook segment, Intel's offerings still give better value in terms of performance and battery life...
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Re: 64 bit or Duo???
Also, merom will be the same price as core duo and should be better architecturally.
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/sho...spx?i=2808&p=4
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Re: 64 bit or Duo???
right.. if you can wait, get the Intel Core 2 Duo (64bit)
or, if you can't wait - get the Intel Core Duo (32bit) and upgrade in half a year or so - it's not really an issue until enough applications (such as windows vista, which is scheduled for 2007) that support 64bit have been released