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The problem with the introduction of 64-bit chips in a market as large as the PC market is that it will not reach mainstream for a long, long time. This means that there will not be very many apps that take full advantage of the processing power and still be of use to the average user (unless you're a calculus professor or run number-crunching physics experiements on a regular basis). In minority markets, such as the Macintosh one, having 64 bit chips as the mainstream allows for more applications to be able to utilise it. As it stands, I wouldn't waste my money on a 64 bit chip just yet, unless it came wrapped in a G5 shell.
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"'There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person,' says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex."
-- From an IGN game review.
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