32 bit or 64 bit machines

hi newbie to this message board and apple so please understand. i'm looking at buying a 2nd hand g5 which has Panther 10.3 installed. having seen what leopard can do, i'd sooner go for a 64 bit machine, how can i tell if a g5 is 64 bit? sorry if this is a daft question, but i'd sooner learn from you guys.....

Which particular model are you looking at? Some G5 models support a maximum of 4GB of RAM, meaning that being 64-bit is largely irrelevant for the work most people will do. It's primarily only when you need to have more than 4GB of RAM that 64-bit becomes much of a concern.
But, yes, all G5s are 64-bit machines. You just can't necessarily exploit that fact on all of them.

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