is 64 bit ready for primetime yet?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday, April 02, 2011, Paul Lemmons wrote:
> When Natty comes out I am planning on doing a clean install. My first on 
> this particular machine since Feisty. I am considering the 64 bit 
> version. The machine has more than 4GB of ram so I have been 
> successfully running the pae version without any real hiccups.  It has 
> been a long time since I considered "real" 64 bit and was wondering has 
> it matured to the point where it is as smooth, application and stability 
> wise, as the 32 bit version? In particular: Firefox? Flash? Java? VMWare 
> Workstation?

I used to feel the way you do and it took a long time for me to get a 64 bit 
machine.

But I built three of them about a year ago  and the switch was painless...

No problems at the moment whatever.   I am sure there might be some apps that 
didn't convert over...  grip is one, but I think it was for other reasons than 
64bit.   I don't think it is supported anymore...   but it does run on 64 bit 
and I still use it occasionally.