On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Florian Philipp <li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: > Am 30.06.2010 18:25, schrieb Paul Hartman: >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:38 AM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: >>> hello, >>> >>> Well, there are lots of local sales on laptops. >>> It's been a few years and much has changed (that I'm not up on >>> with boot CDs). Naturally, I'd like gentoo/kde on a boot >>> cd, but then there are different images for AMD and intel arches. >> >> Not AMD and intel arches, just 32-bit and 64-bit instruction sets. >> "amd64" is what gentoo calls their x86_64, x64, whatever, it will work >> on any modern intel CPU since the Pentium4. Unless you're looking at >> ancient laptops amd64 is the one you want. >> > > You forget about Intel Atoms which are still partly i686 flavored. Of > course, this point is mostly mood because these systems don't usually > come with an optical drive.
I don't think of laptops having Atom, more netbooks/mobile device. :) But you are right, of course.
