Why not try and let us know the outcome of your experiments?
And I doubt if this is a newbie question. A newbie should just buy a PC with Windows 7 and use it.
Kees
Everything I've read says that x86-64 CPUs (like Athlon II & Phenom II) will run BOTH 32 and 64-bit software. Yet I see in Wikipedia article 'Comparison of open source operating systems' ('supported architecture'table),that Haiku & Syllable does not support x86-64...so what does this mean? Will AMD64 CPUs run these operating systems or not? Anyone got a definitive answer?

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