Hughes, B. wrote:
> Feel like I'm left behind in the dust with my current, and what I consider
> to still be new, PC; having only the Intel Pentium IV with Hyperthreading
> and my WinXP being only 32bit, too, I keep thinking I'm always making bad
> computer buys.
> :-)
> I'm guessing this new and improved POV-Ray will be okay on a 64bit Intel
> processor like the Nocona, or whatever it will be called...? But why bother,
> since AMD seems to be staying ahead on that processing power stuff.
> Although, having checked up on pricing they don't seem to be very different
> in cost and Intel is boasting a lot of improvements.

This 64bit version is mainly developed for the AMD 64bit processors 
(Athlon 64/Opteron).  Of course it should also run on whatever Intel 
develops as compatible to the AMD64 extensions.  It won't run on Intel's 
Itanium systems but that's a different league anyway.

Since 64bit Windows versions are still in beta the whole 'Windows 
64-bit' concept is not that important for the broad market yet, the 
number of people running POV-Ray on 64bit Unix systems (including AMD64) 
is probably going to be higher than on Windows for quite some time.  If 
you want to buy a relatively cheap and reliable 64bit system for use 
with POV-Ray, AMD with Linux/FreeBSD is probably the way to go at the 
moment.

Christoph

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