On 2/24/06, Robin Mordasiewicz robin@mordasiewicz.com wrote:
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Kari Salovaara wrote:
I've Intel(r) Pentium(r) D processor 820 in my desktop. Which version should I install, i386 or x86_64 ? I understand that i386 works but how is x86_64 ? If I understand correctly, this processor is also EM64T. Which are cons and pros ?
if your processor is EM64T then install the x86_64 version. there are no cons. You will experience performance increases.
There are always cons... There are some user-end things which don't play well in a true 64bit environment. Flash is a good example. I'm not sure if this has been resolved or not, but flash didn't support x86_64, and so would not render on pages. The fix was to install the x86 browser, libs and flash versions. I'm not rich enough to have x86_64 yet, so I don't know if this still applies.
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