My Employer just gave me a new laptop to use with a shiny dual core, 64bit processor!
I installed Ubuntu 8.10 in both 32 bit and 64 bit versions and played with each just to get a feel of which is faster and to see if 64bit would be more trouble than it was worth.
I have to say that I DO notice a difference in speed in the 64 bit version.
- This may be only the placebo affect, but I don't care, it feels faster!
The only downside I have seen to it is there are a few applications that are just not yet available in 64 bit versions.
- The most important of which for me is Gears (formally called Google Gears) as I like to use a few key offline applications (read Remember The Milk).
Next post I'll show you how I got around the gears problem.
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