Is Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 a 64 bit processor

It is 64 bit.
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=39311

Yes it is.

Core 2 is Intel's 64 bit processor range.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2

echo's ??

The virtualization support comment was extremely helpful and you have saved me $$.  I have correctly put off making a potentially expensive and lackluster laptop purchase.

i'm sorry, but the link i provided showed it as well, and was an exact answer to the question.
i do not know why i'ts not accepted?

I think my comment noting the importance of the hardware virtualization feature for XP mode in Windows 7 was far more important than the trivial responses to the x64 question (which, as you noted, was a no-brainer to answer ... if you didn't already know it, it was, as you said, only a quick Google to confirm it).     The question also asked for a list of 64-bit CPUs, which I provided for Intel processors -- but even that difference wasn't the most important element.

As with many questions, the title of the question wasn't the most important piece of information in the question, nor was the answer to that specific question the most relevant answer to what the author really wanted to know.    The author's comment r.e. "...  I need to know because I'm interested in Windows 7 ..."  was a key clue that there was an important missing element  -- hardware virtualization support -- that the author had not asked about, and likely was not aware of.

while ai agree that you answered part 2 of his question, i note that he asked : is it a 64 bit processor?
and : NOWHERE in the laptop literature does it mention if this processor is 32 or 64 bit.  
so i have to conclude that that is the core question he wants to see answered
further - there was NO feedback from the asker at all

but as you know - i never want a fightabout right or wrong, but if i feel the EE rules are not followed, i want somebody else have a look at it

i also feel some feedback from the asker could have settled this much easier

I never fight about right-or-wrong ... in fact I've never posted an objection to an accepted answer regardless of how much quicker or better I thought mine may have been -- with one exception when it was clearly a technically wrong answer.    I was just noting why I believe the question was closed as it was.

As for "... there was NO feedback from the asker at all ..." ==>  I thought everyone could now see the "Author Comments" in the accepted solution, but perhaps not.     The author did provide feedback with this "Author Comment":   "... The virtualization support comment was extremely helpful and you have saved me $$. I have correctly put off making a potentially expensive and lackluster laptop purchase."