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acadia11 64 bit does not mean a system is faster, it means it can address more memory, actually in many cases a 32 bit program will be faster than its 64 bit counterpart. Without getting too technical processors are far more complex today than when we were putting about on a 4mhz intel and could say well 8mhz is definitely faster, same is true of 32 bit to 64 bit, in fact, 64 bit variant is often slower until you have some serious software optimization or robust applications, it really comes into play when you require more parallelism or applications that require greater ram usage and this is not the case on mobile platforms of today. Your phone is not a server and you aren't trying to render Avatar on it, so for the foreseeable future unless you change how we use mobile devices 64bit is marketing.
The biggest usage I can see is speech recognition at the moment, the finger print modeling and the facial recognition and biometrics security that we will see in future. Actual applications like uhm liking listing your apps in a GUI , yeah sorry, 64 bit makes no difference and could cause slow down in as way general usage applications.
Interesting, but suspecting little "glitches" like this was one of the reasons why I chose an iPhone 5C for my phone, when I upgraded last year. I need my phone to run reliably most of all, because for me it's still mostly a phone and Internet device. While it will also run games and other processor-intensive tasks, those are of least importance to me *on my phone*. My tablet is a different kettle of fish, and I am quite happy to put up with a few quirks on my rMini. In fact, I am happy to have the 64-bit chip on my iPad mini because I intend to keep it for much longer than my iPhone.
I will pick performance over reliability with my iPad, but my iPhone is the opposite - I will choose reliability over anything else. Because it's a phone first, and I need it to work. Period.
The good news is that I have both, and they compliment each other perfectly.
Interesting, but suspecting little "glitches" like this was one of the reasons why I chose an iPhone 5C for my phone, when I upgraded last year. I need my phone to run reliably most of all, because for me it's still mostly a phone and Internet device. While it will also run games and other processor-intensive tasks, those are of least importance to me *on my phone*. My tablet is a different kettle of fish, and I am quite happy to put up with a few quirks on my rMini. In fact, I am happy to have the 64-bit chip on my iPad mini because I intend to keep it for much longer than my iPhone.
