When are laptops going to use 64bit chips?

[Dillinger4]

Ive seen some voodoo laptops for sale that currently use AMD 64 processors but i have yet to see any other companies running 64bit chips in laptops.

Do any of you guys think it's best to wait for more 64bit laptops to come out rather than just going for a laptop with a 32bit processor?

[Kasracer]

32bit is going to be around for a good while, so don't worry about that.

That company is using Desktop CPUs in a laptop. Battery Drainage++

Who knows when you'll see 64bit CPUs in a laptop that were made for a laptop. I haven't heard of anyone developing them and Intel just started developing a desktop CPU that is basically a clone of the AMD 64 so I don't think they'll be about for a long time.

[VisionIT]

Voodoo are now using mobile 64-bit CPU's in the newest laptops. IMHO, not worth the money just yet...

[Ideas Man]

Yeah, especially seeing as you usually use a laptop for moving around, the batter life of the AMD chips is shocking (From what I've seen(This is NOT designed to start an argument)), the Centrino is by far the best so far, a very nice 4 hours and very good performance. 64-Bit is just a gimmick, there's no point in them now, and when everybody move to them, your laptop will be out of date anyway.

[Dillinger4]

Posted by Ideas Man
64-Bit is just a gimmick

I agree on the power issues of using a desktop processor in a moble system but i cant see how 64bit processors are a gimick though. I don't know that much about computer engineering but i can't see accessing and processing more system memory as a bad thing.

[Cander]

AMD has 64 bit chips for laptops

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/..._10221,00.html

64-Bit is just a gimmick, there's no point in them now, and when everybody move to them, your laptop will be out of date anyway.

Its early adopters that get software developers to stand up and take notice to start supporing 64-bit.

[Ideas Man]

Yeah spose, Just that if you buy one now, the time they become mass produced, it will be too slow. There's no 64-Bit applications or any advantages having that that the ordinary joe or laptop user would benifit from. Take DirectX 9 graphics cards, they are slow now for DX9 games, but after a couple of months, they will speed up and become more worth the money. People who rush in pay a price. Trust me i know, i did with the early P4s, and i'm stuck with RDRAM. I don't mind but that's what you get for having the latest gear.