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I have dual booted my Acer aspire one d257 which has an Intel atom n570 1gb of ram net book with windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04. Which operating system shall I upgrade my PC to the 32 bit or 64bit, my laptop came with 32 bit but what confuses me is that it is on the download page If you have a PC with the Windows 8 logo or UEFI firmware, choose the 64-bit download. The thing is that my PC is 64 bit capable. Which operating system should I choose. Please list your answer with reasons why. my laptop came with 32-bit and has 32 bit windows 8. luckily, my laptop processor is 64bit based.


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UEFI firmware is a more modern alternative to the BIOS used in older computers. Windows 8 computers require UEFI because it uses something called secure boot. This means that only programs signed by Microsoft can run during boot up.



This adds special requirements needed to install another OS on the machine. Ubuntu streamlines this in the x64 iso of Ubuntu since every UEFI computer happens to have a 64-bit processor in it.



If your processor supports 64 bit, your computer will run more efficiently using 64bit code. You should choose Ubuntu64


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