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Don't forget a 64 bit CPU! Aside from the larger address space-what good is a 64 bit CPU??
The larger adress space is (for me at least) the main reason. Other benefits are that it's (slightly) faster [although quite frankly, you will be hard pressed to notice the difference between an AMD3500+ and an AMD64 3500+] in day-to-day use and of course, these days an AMD64 is about the same price as a straight 32bit AMD , and I think that for intel CPUs the price difference betweenn an 32intel and a 32intel+64hack (with same specs) is marginal, so for a little bit of extra money (if that) you get a lot of extra possibilities.
No, it's just that it seems to me that 32 bit serves most users very well. True. Then again, I remember buying a 4G harddrive, and thinking that that should be able to serve as central file storage for our enitire office for the next couple of years ..
Heck, I recently bought an apple iStick w/512M or memory. The thing is
about the size of a pack of chewing gum.
One of my first sysadmin task was to replace a disk in our convex .
That was also a .5G disk, and it took 2 people to manhandle it in and out
of the system ...
Currently listening to: NIN_DemosAndRemixes_t10
Gerhard,