On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 15:27:52 -0400 Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote: > It makes sense they'd do that. With PAE being pretty common these > days, it could account for the lack of a user-visible advantage to > going 64-bit. PAE also needs to be enabled to make use of the NX bit when running in 32 bit mode. Pat