Re: when do you really need a 64bit cpu?

On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 17:12 -0600, hanasaki wrote:

when do you really need a 64bit cpu?

* large databases * files larger than 4GB * memory larger than 4GB * 3D games with larger depth of field

And before you say you'll never need that: HDTV 1080i is 1,080 scan lines x 1,920 pixels/line = 2,073,600 pixels x 24-bits/pixel in YUV format / 8 bits/byte = 6,220,800 bytes/frame x ~25 frames/sec = 155,520,000 bytes/sec x 60 sec/min x 60 min/hour =

559,872,000,000 bytes for 1 hour HDTV quality home movie of your daughters birthday party recorded on your brand-spankin'-new HD home camcorder stored uncompressed for editing. That's 560 gigabytes.

Other than that, you don't.