How do I know my laptop is 64 bit compatible?

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I recently plan to buy a new laptop to run 64 bit OS, but I friend told me that my current laptop is 64 bit but I am not sure how do I verify if my laptop is ready to load 64 bit OS?

Here is the result from cpuz

cpu-z result

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How do I know my laptop is 64 bit compatible?

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Published on 2008-10-12T13:58:59Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 22:54 UTC
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I recently plan to buy a new laptop to run 64 bit OS, but I friend told me that my current laptop is 64 bit but I am not sure how do I verify if my laptop is ready to load 64 bit OS?

Here is the result from cpuz

cpu-z result

edit: come say something at less if you want to vote this down :)

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