> I had a 64 bit chip 10 years ago and most of you probably did too. Intel didn't put out an x86-64 chip until 2004, and their first desktop chip wasn't until

> I had a 64 bit chip 10 years ago and most of you probably did too. Intel didn't put out an x86-64 chip until 2004, and their first desktop chip wasn't until early 2005 (IIRC). AMD's first 64-bit chip (Opteron) wasn't until 2003. Neither of these were mass market for quite a few years; it wasn't until 2006 that you really started seeing them in mass-market desktops. Now, there were exceptions of course, most notably the iMac and PowerMac G5, but 64-bit machines really weren't in the hands of general users until 2006-2007.