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[mmoy]

A64 is making steady inroads to the enthusiasts market.
Yesterday, someone posted a graphic from ALienware's site
that ran an active-x comparison of their hardware with Alienware's hardware for gaming purposes and the target was
an A64 chip with a hot video card.

Today, there was another poster on the build forum looking for
a native Windows 64 build. So I see people buying them.

Of course if you're running Linux, you just run natively as you
can build anything that you need.

But Windows is the 800 lb gorilla needed to drive adoption of
A64. Along with applications. IMO, the operating system looks
good to go. I use it for several hours per day at work and I've
seen no problems at all with it.

There are uses for it that the non-enthusiast could use it for
but those are still niche markets. I've found that compression
and decompression jobs perform very well on A64.