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Age of the 64-bit Desktop

With the AMD Athlon 64 available today (even in portables like eMachines M6807), Intel moving to release its EM64T technology for the Xeon processors, Visual Studio 2005 providing 32-bit/64-bit CLR's, Microsoft offering a customer preview of Windows XP 64-bit, it would appear what we are approaching the "Age of the 64-bit Desktop" (ignoring the Intel Itanium).  I'm therefore curious to know how many people are actively looking at buying a 64-bit portable/desktop in the coming months.

I wonder if Microsoft will update Rotor to work on 64-bit processors.

Interesting article on Athlon 64 FX-53 running Windows XP 64-bit

Published Mar 19 2004, 10:15 AM by mdavey
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Jeff said:

I'm not. I don't see myself (Athlon 2000+) or my wife (P4 2.0GHz) upgrading any time soon. Even my Web server (P4 2.4GHz) will stay as-is for awhile. Nothing we do on any of these machines needs the additional power. Any bottlenecks we have are caused by something other than the CPU.

And actually, the 64-bit desktop that's not beta, available today for purchase, runs on G5's with OS X. ;)
March 19, 2004 9:00 AM
 

Stefan said:

Bought 3200+ yesterday :)
running the Windows beta.
March 19, 2004 9:31 AM
 

Jon Galloway said:

Just bought one recently (http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2004/03/11/88388.aspx). I test drove the demo XP 64-bit for a little, but went back to 32-bit XP for now, waiting to find out how much the 64-bit OS will cost or even if it will be for sale separately.
March 19, 2004 11:19 AM
 

Chad Humphries said:

I've got a 64bit AMD 3400+. Dual SATA drivers running Win64 and Gentoo 64. It's been really nice so far. I've got a third PATA disk running WinXP 32 bit for compatibility apps at the moment, but not much that I use in day to day doesn't work.
March 19, 2004 1:44 PM

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