On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 04:59:04PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: > Henning Brauer wrote: > >> 1. Core Duo 32-bit (T60) or Core 2 Duo 64-bit (T61)? I've only used > >> > i386, should I think about amd64? > >> > > shouldn't make a difference. personally, I run i386 anyway. > > > > Any interesting reason you run i386 on 64-bit hardware? Stability? > Performance?
I don't have any amd64 laptop, but one annoying thing I noticed would be the register dump in ddb won't fit the 80x25 screen :-) People say that you'll notice the difference only with lots of multimedia and heavy optimized computing. Or a habit is just a second nature... -- Martin Pelikan