Desktops usually no; Servers yes.

Posted Dec 10, 2004 5:42 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Desktops usually no; Servers yes. by mbp
Parent article: Fedora Core 3 on AMD64

Nothing strange. 4 Gb of memory is still too expensive for a desktop. Ability to address more memory is only one advantage of 64-bit architectures. There are other advantages, such as 64-bit arithmetic and (in case of AMD64) new registers.