On Thursday 19 June 2008 09:11:12 am Tenant wrote: > Although the poster doesn't say, the dv6700t is Intel and the dv6700z is > AMD. > > However he does say it's a Core 2 Due, which of course is Intel. So > I'm wondering then why would one install debian with the AMD version? amd64 is the catch all for 64 bit debian. It dates back to the days when amd had the only consumer 64 bit cpu. If you want a 64 bit system, this is what you install for amd and intel consumer cpus. > > On a related issue, I'm looking at the dv9700t and wondering how does > the T8300 chip stack up? Is it quick or lagging? I'm thinking about > the next step up, the T9300, which has 6M L2 cache instead of 3M L2 > cache of the T8300. Don't know this, I have been a amd guy. I guess, short of a break through for amd, I will have to change now. > > The 17" has room for two hard drives. Has anyone set up dual booting > on such a machine? I have not, however, I have 4 hds in my desktop. Nothing to it barring some strange bios settings (raid) that will not allow your machine to "see" two hds. I will go out on a limb and say this is not the case. Just pick your hd to install to, install grub on the MBR and away you go. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser damon@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
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