Hi again,
julien.breval@tremplin-utc.net wrote:
thanks derek and ix for your anwsers
I will certainly avoid the mobile pentium4. Also, that's right you can find some cheap laptops with a 64 bit processor. But most programs are optimized for the 32 bit operating systems currently, so they may run slower on a 64 bit ...
Not really true. Lots of (most?) Linux apps seem to run fine on 64bit. The issue here wouldn;t be so much the speed by the compatibility. I don't know how far PD is with 64bit optimizations, for example, and you might still have some problems with binary-only drivers under Linux, so 64bit may or may not be worth your money. I end up running PD in 32bit mode because I had problems loading soundfiles to tables in 64bit. Check the list for postings from thewade about other 64bit issues.
best, d.