On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 19:47 -0600, King InuYasha wrote: > Netbooks are entirely 32-bit currently, and a majority of low end > desktops are still 32-bit only. I don't think your second assertion is true. I'm not aware of any currently-sold desktop processor, no matter how low end, which is not x86-64 capable. The very cheapest processor you can buy from my friendly local dealer is a 'Celeron 430', which is x86-64 capable. The last processor Intel released which was not x86-64 capable, so far as I can figure out, was the Celeron D 310, released December 2005. The last non-x86-64-capable chip AMD released was the 'Paris' Sempron family, which came in July 2004. The subsequent 'Palermo' Sempron family, released February 2005, had x86-64 support. If you're talking about already-existing systems rather than newly sold ones, there's more of a case there, but even so we've been in a 64-bit-capable world aside from netbook Atom CPUs for over four years now. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
