On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 01:55:06PM EST, charlie derr wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 02/26/2009 07:41 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >>>What applications or usage scenarios get more out of your hardware as > >>>with 32bit / 64bit kernel? > >>> > >>>How much better are those on amd64? > >>> > >> > >>If you have over 3 GB of memory then you need 64 bit. > > > >I really think that's myth. > > > > I'll confirm that. My laptop has 4G of RAM (though only 3.4G is > addressable, but my understanding is that that's a BIOS limitation > (thanks Dell) since both windows XP (which I dual boot) and Debian show > the same value).
Yeah, but think of the headaches you (and Dell) saved yoursel{f, ves} looking for a motherboard that supports a maximum of 3.4G of RAM and 1.7G memory chips. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org