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Does the average iPhone user care that the new phone as a 64-bit chip?


Nope, but they care that their pictures look better, their games are snappy, etc.


Since it only has 2 gigs of Ram, 64-bit won't do anything for any of that.


64-bit address space might not; 64-bit integer registers might help speed up some non-GPUizable matrix math.


It won't make an iota of difference, since the phone has less than 4 gigs of memory.

Wait, you asked if they 'cared'? Of course they care - it's a larger number than everyone else at the offices' iphone has.




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