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JK wrote:

>> 64Bit for notebooks is just for catching the clueless masses that
>> run behind high GHz and GByte numbers...
>
> There are people who want to run 64 bit software.

Yes, right. There are tons of applications for x86-64 that _require_ to be 
run as 64bit on a notebook. You for sure are one of the people living in the 
belief that 64bit are much faster than 32bit...

Interestingly, AMD64 is mostly found in cheap consumer notebooks. I can't 
think of any business notebook working with an AMD64 CPU. On the other hand, 
there are lots of P-M notebooks which provide unbeaten battery runtime 
(except maybe the PPC-based Apple iBooks/Powerbooks) and a great 
performance...

>>> Is it because they can't manage to make a low power 64 bit
>>> processor?
>>
>> AMD also can't make a low power 64bit processor. MIPS does for
>> example...
>>
>> Benjamin
>
> AMD makes some very low power processors.

Right, a 32bit CPU. Intel has lots of them, too...

But AMD still has no real low power 64bit processor...

> AMD also makes some Opteron chips that use only 30 watts, which have
> the designation EE.

30Watts are not low power. 3-12 Watts are low power. The opteron is a nice 
CPU (even when having some bottlenecks), but certainly not a low power 
CPU...

Benjamin