AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile or "Regular" x86 Laptop

[alan]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Joe Klemmer wrote:

> 	Ok, this is semi-topical but still within the range of list posting.
>
> 	I am in a situation where I need to buy a laptop, like, today.  My
> mother's system just died and she wants a new one ASAP.  I have been
> pricing things and found that I can get some good prices on AMD Turion?
> 64 systems.  I am, however, unsure if it would be worth it to get a
> 64-bit processor or get a regular x86 one.  The key is will she be able
> to run all the software I currently have setup for her?  I know FC5/FC6
> will be happy but there's some third party apps that need to be run.
>
> 	Any info or opinions is greatly welcome.

What apps?

What OS?

64-bit Windows is a waste of time.  It is not stable.

64-bit Linux works well.  (Except for suspend. I don't know of anyone who 
has gotten 64-bit suspend to work right.)

You can run 32-bit apps on a 64-bit processor.  It just depends on your 
host OS requirements.

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