[wellylug] windozes 64bit woes:

[Centurion Computer Technology Ltd]

> Also, the 64bit CPUs are, at this stage at least, more suited to server
> applications.  The price alone - $682.44 including GST for a 1.8ghz
> Opteron, as opposed to $205 for a 1.8ghz Athlon XP 2500+ - can attest to
> this.
> 
> There is, at this stage, no point in paying an extra $450 for a CPU for
> a desktop computer.  Something like a database server, on the other hand,
> could certainly make use of the true benefits of a 64bit CPU.  Server
> software like this is certain to be released in 32 and 64bit builds long
> before any desktop software is considered.

Thats the even stranger part,  AMD64 versions of Server 2003 aren't
expected to be out until mid 2004.  I would have thought server 2003
would have been the more important platform to go 64 bit on.



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	Daniel Reurich
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