On 2009-04-01 13:58 +0200, Rafa Grimán wrote:
IIRC, Atom has the 220 and 330 models which are x86-64 compatible. So there's not much of an issue with Atom.
Well, I don't care about those two, the N270 is most used Atom processor at the moment and neither this one nor the upcoming N280 supports 64 bits. It is that simple.
As Dieter has said, you can think Android or some other distro for x86.
The thing is, I have installed Arch Linux on my eeePC in October, changed and did a lot to make it my system. So I pretty much doubt that I just can switch to another distribution within a week or two.
My guess is that x86-64 has far more bugs related to the platform than i686, so the assumption: it compiles on x86-64 so it should compile on i686 is more valid than the other way around. I might be wrong on this but if I'm wrong I like to see the statistics.
Thomas P.S. Where is x86-64 really an advantage besides the 2K38 bug?
