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nikolas68
February 19th, 2008, 03:22 AM
Been using Ubuntu on a PC for a while...now i've bought a new SantaRosa MacBook black. I thought i had to install 32 bit Intel version.....but somewhere i've read that i should use the amd 64 bit version of Ubuntu 7.10. Is that right?
thanks guys..
Tasu
February 19th, 2008, 05:10 AM
I'm all for 64bit version, see it like an attitude.. some things are a bit harder (flash anyone?), but generally speaking everything works for me, and I'm really happy, I do a lot of multimedia editing and I feel this setup is better than 32bit one... faster, indeed... apart from that.. It's all about choices... ^_^
cyberdork33
February 19th, 2008, 11:03 AM
Been using Ubuntu on a PC for a while...now i've bought a new SantaRosa MacBook black. I thought i had to install 32 bit Intel version.....but somewhere i've read that i should use the amd 64 bit version of Ubuntu 7.10. Is that right?
thanks guys..It is a x86_64 CPU meaning that it is capable of executing both 32bit and 64bit code. Either version will work fine and it is a matter of preference.
nikolas68
February 19th, 2008, 11:52 AM
...all right....thanks for clarifying
Dale Cooper
February 19th, 2008, 05:54 PM
Either version will work fine and it is a matter of preference.

This is a common answer to this common question, but I still wonder : WHY would you prefer 64 to 32bit or vice versa?

All I can see so far is that there are more 32bit "non-official" packages on the web than 64 ones. And indeed that's the reason why I'm still using the 32bit version :)
cyberdork33
February 19th, 2008, 06:01 PM
All I can see so far is that there are more 32bit "non-official" packages on the web than 64 ones. And indeed that's the reason why I'm still using the 32bit version :)
That doesn't really matter either as you can quite easily run 32bit executables in 64bit systems. (This is how flash works now).

Eventually, everything will be 64bit, so it help to move now anyway, and there is a slight performance boost in some instances of use.

There is a whole forum specifically for 64bit users:
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=134
The advantages/disadvantages is in the sticky:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=368607
Dale Cooper
February 20th, 2008, 03:58 AM
Thank you for pointing the sticky thread, this is what i needed