Refreshing my laptop

By On April 24, 2010 · 2 Comments

Ubuntu 10.04 is only a few days away and I’ve decided to do a complete new install of my laptop. First thing I want t do is replace the 120gig Hard drive with a nice new 320gig Hard drive. 2.5 inch notebook drives have really come down in price and to be honest I tend to low on space all the time. Usually I just shift stuff around but what I noticed was that I didn’t make full use of virtual machines because of the space.

I however wonder if I should make the switch to the 64bit version of Ubuntu but I’m worries about apps like Skype, Hamachi, Java and maybe XBMC/Boxee. I’ve had 4gig of memory for ages and been restricted to 3267meg for ages. There must be more advantages to 64bit processing that just more memory allocation I’m sure. I was thinking if worst came to worst, I could just run Ubuntu 64bit an 32bit side by side, I mean I’ll have the space to do it plus I could maybe even share the home directory to ensure consistency between the platforms?

 
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  • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/jaymzcd@googlemail.com jaymz

    If you install a PAE kernel on the 32 bit ubuntu you’ll get all your RAM allowance without making that commit to 64bit (see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnablingPAE). Although having said that I’ve ran 64bit for as long as I can remember and haven’t had any real issues with anything. As a dev that dips into 3d 64 bit was an easy sell even when I had <4Gb in my box.

  • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/jaymzcd@googlemail.com jaymz

    If you install a PAE kernel on the 32 bit ubuntu you'll get all your RAM allowance without making that commit to 64bit (see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnablingPAE). Although having said that I've ran 64bit for as long as I can remember and haven't had any real issues with anything. As a dev that dips into 3d 64 bit was an easy sell even when I had <4Gb in my box.