32bit CoreDuo -- Longevity of 32bit processor?

[anti-microsoft]

What are you guys saying? CoreDuo's are the future for Wintel PCS!!!!
A BIG black box that runs an intel pentium 4 at 1.2GHz was on display in a shops window and had a "NEW!" badge on it. For crying out loud! Coreduos aren't slow.

 

[TBi]

What are you guys saying? CoreDuo's are the future for Wintel PCS!!!!
A BIG black box that runs an intel pentium 4 at 1.2GHz was on display in a shops window and had a "NEW!" badge on it. For crying out loud! Coreduos aren't slow.

Pentium 4's have never run at 1.2GHz...

 

[flopticalcube]

What are you guys saying? CoreDuo's are the future for Wintel PCS!!!!
A BIG black box that runs an intel pentium 4 at 1.2GHz was on display in a shops window and had a "NEW!" badge on it. For crying out loud! Coreduos aren't slow.

I think only 1 person made a comment similar to "slow". Core Duos are, however, no longer in production so they can hardly be called the future.

 

[Cabbit]

there has been a Pentium M 1.2 that is often marketed as a Pentium 4, as were a lot of the Pentium M's and now you can buy new Pentiums that are really cellerons

 

[WannaGoMac]

It's simple. AMD designed X86-64 so that 32-bit programs will run on it natively while it is running in 64bit mode. They just can't access all the new registers that 64-bit programs can.

In OSX, for programs which are 64-bit and 32-bit then both versions are included and chosen based on the CPU you run. There will probably be a way to strip out the 32 or 64bit versions as you need.

(Windows and Linux do this differently)

I suspect it will be handled as TBi said: two versions shipped similar to Intel vs PPC and your OS will decide which one to run.

Thanks for the explanation!

 

[Bill Gates]

there has been a Pentium M 1.2 that is often marketed as a Pentium 4, as were a lot of the Pentium M's and now you can buy new Pentiums that are really cellerons

Sounds like FUD to me. I've never heard of this. If anyone marketed the Pentium M as a Pentium 4, it would be a manufacturer that had misinformation in their own marketing department. Also, Celerons and Pentiums are architecturally the same; the only difference is the cache size and core speed. Therefore, if Intel markets a low-cost processor as a Pentium, then it's a Pentium. If Intel markets that same processor as a Celeron, then it's a Celeron, so that last statement you made is misleading.

 

[TBi]

Sounds like FUD to me. I've never heard of this. If anyone marketed the Pentium M as a Pentium 4, it would be a manufacturer that had misinformation in their own marketing department. Also, Celerons and Pentiums are architecturally the same; the only difference is the cache size and core speed. Therefore, if Intel markets a low-cost processor as a Pentium, then it's a Pentium. If Intel markets that same processor as a Celeron, then it's a Celeron, so that last statement you made is misleading.

Well actually ever since Intel changed to the Core Duo (CD, C2D or C2Q) name the Pentium name has been relegated to "value" chips and quite a few chips which were previously Celeron have been either rebranded Pentium, or vice versa.

My friends Pentium Dual Core 1.6GHz is exactly the same as the Celeron Dual core of the same speed.