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dogma1138 on June 14, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tails 3.0 Released

Intel early centrinos are not 64bit (Dothan / Banias) so are the initial Core / Core Duo CPUs (Yona).

Intel didn't release a mobile 64bit CPU until 2006/7 with Core 2 Duo.

Also the initial implementations of Intel64/EMT64 lack certain functions so even tho they technically support 64bit they might lack certain other features that are required by modern operating systems.

So overall if you have a 10 year old laptop you might not be able to use Tails 3.0.

boondaburrah on June 14, 2017 | [–]

not even. If you have a netbook from 2009 the ubiquitous Intel Atom N270 that powered all of those was a single-core 32-bit CPU.

dogma1138 on June 14, 2017 | | [–]

I forgot about the Atoms completely, are they even 64bit now?

_m7bj on June 14, 2017 | | | [–]

My thought as well. Those things are everywhere like rats.

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