1:
Should I install 32 or 64bit windows (Vista/XP) on my laptop with a Core2Duo
cpu?

2:
Will I gain any performance if I use Vista instead of XP?

(Its a Zepto 6615WD laptop:
http://uk.zepto.com/Default.aspx?pag...kid=O6P2jpCGK2)

Thanks!

//Kim

The Core2Duo is not a 64 bit machine.

Vista is not out yet. Some will say yes and others will say no. Some
programs will not work with Vista that worked with XP


Kim wrote:
> 1:
> Should I install 32 or 64bit windows (Vista/XP) on my laptop with a Core2Duo
> cpu?
>
> 2:
> Will I gain any performance if I use Vista instead of XP?
>
> (Its a Zepto 6615WD laptop:
> http://uk.zepto.com/Default.aspx?pag...kid=O6P2jpCGK2)
>
> Thanks!
>
> //Kim
>
>

"Kevin Weaver" <kevinkeithweaver@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:LNdth.3704$O02.1472@newssvr11.news.prodigy.ne t...
> The Core2Duo is not a 64 bit machine.
>
> Vista is not out yet. Some will say yes and others will say no.

It has not been released to retail yet, but the final release has been
available to developers for over two months now.

JL

"Kevin Weaver" $O02.1472@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net...
> The Core2Duo is not a 64 bit machine.

Yes it is:
"As Intel's brand-new common microarchitecture, Core is of course equipped
with all of the latest features. String 'em together, and you get something
like this: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4, EM64T, EIST, C1E, XD, and VT, to name
a subset of the complete list. The most notable addition here is probably
EM64T-Intel's name for x86-64 compatibility-because the Core Duo didn't have
it. In order to make its way into desktops and servers, Core needed to be a
64-bit capable processor, and so it is."

Grabbed from: http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/core2/index.x?pg=2

//Kim

"Kevin Weaver" <kevinkeithweaver@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:LNdth.3704$O02.1472@newssvr11.news.prodigy.ne t...
> The Core2Duo is not a 64 bit machine.
>

Yes it is. It's CoreDuo that isn't.

You are correct. I stand corrected.


Kim wrote:
> "Kevin Weaver" $O02.1472@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net...
>> The Core2Duo is not a 64 bit machine.
>
> Yes it is:
> "As Intel's brand-new common microarchitecture, Core is of course equipped
> with all of the latest features. String 'em together, and you get something
> like this: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4, EM64T, EIST, C1E, XD, and VT, to name
> a subset of the complete list. The most notable addition here is probably
> EM64T-Intel's name for x86-64 compatibility-because the Core Duo didn't have
> it. In order to make its way into desktops and servers, Core needed to be a
> 64-bit capable processor, and so it is."
>
> Grabbed from: http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/core2/index.x?pg=2
>
> //Kim
>
>