I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install Debian (squeeze) on it. I'm trying to decide whether to do a 64-bit install (amd64) or a 32-bit install (i386). My understanding is that the amd64 port is now very complete, and that the principal difficulty would probably be with flashplayer (since Adobe withdrew the 64-bit version of flashplayer 10 for linux).
There seem to be various workarounds for this issue, but I was wondering if the performance gain that one might expect from the 64-bit architecture over the 32-bit architecture would be worth the extra trouble entailed by these workarounds. The machine has a 1.6GHz Intel Quad Core processor and 6GB of RAM. The GPU is an ATI Mobility Radeon (HD 5470) with 1GB of onboard memory. The laptop will be a work machine, but it will not be required to do 3D modelling or any intensive mathematical tasks (except maybe some statistical analysis and visualization with R, along with some audio analysis). If anyone here had advice to offer regarding this choice, I would very much appreciate hearing it, Thank you, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100705224004.ga5...@ohlone
