Jakob Ovrum Wrote: > On Friday, 16 December 2011 at 09:56:47 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > wrote: > > considering that there are no x86 chips sold these days which > > aren't x86_64, I find it rather baffling that Microsoft even > > sells a 32-bit version of Windows. > > This is simply not true. I don't know about processors sold > separately, but many netbooks and laptops still come with 32 bit > processors. New laptops and netbooks don't. Even recent (less than two years old) versions of intel atom are x86_64.