Jamie's Random Musings
Various thoughts and adventures, including but not limited to Linux, Windows XP and Widows Vista, and assorted bits of hardware new and old.
Friday 2 October 2009, 5:03 PM
Intel Atom CPU - 32 or 64 bits?
I've been installing the latest test releases of openSuSE (11.2 Milestone 8) and Ubuntu (9.10, Karmic Koala Beta) on various of my computers. As the new HP Pavillion dv2-1010ez has an Athlon 64 Neo CPU, I started paying a bit more attention to when and where I could install 64-bit versions. The ones that turned out to be interesting were the Atom CPU systems - the ASUS N10J netbook, with an Atom N270, and the desktop mini-server with an Atom 330. It turns out that the desktop versions of the Atom CPU (230 and 330) have the 64-bit x86-64 architecture, while all the rest have the 32-bit x86 architecture.
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