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>So you could very well have bought a decent quality 32 bit system after 2005, although the writing was on the wall long before then. Not really. With the laun
by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>So you could very well have bought a decent quality 32 bit system after 2005, although the writing was on the wall long before then.
Not really. With the launch of Athlon 64, AMD basically replaced all their 32bit CPUs lineups with that new arch, and not kept them along much longer as a lower tier part. By 2005 I expect 90% of new PCs sold were already 64 bit ready.
- kstrauser 1y agoIntel didn’t do that by 2005, though. MacBooks weren’t the single most popular product line, but they weren’t exactly eMachines.
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoMacbook market share was irrelevant around 2005 for that to matter in the PC CPU statistics.
- axiolite 1y ago> By 2005 I expect 90% of new PCs sold were already 64 bit ready. You're several years off: "The FIRST processor to implement Intel 64 was the multi-socket processor Xeon code-named Nocona in June 2004. In contrast, the initial Prescott chips (February 2004) did not enable this feature." "The first Intel mobile processor implementing Intel 64 is the Merom version of the Core 2 processor, which was released on July 27, 2006. None of Intel's earlier notebook CPUs (Core Duo, Pentium M, Celeron M, Mobile Pentium 4) implement Intel 64." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Intel_64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Intel_64 "2012: Intel themselves are limiting the functionality of the Cedar-Trail Atom CPUs to 32bit only" https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/no-emt64-on-intel-atom-n2600.204215/post-2883539 https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/no-emt64-on-intel-at... Intel had 80% of the CPU market at the time.