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ssidbroadcast wrote:Which reminds me: Has anyone seen Ghandi lately?
SNM wrote:I think he left in a fit several months ago. It was unfortunate.
ssidbroadcast wrote:SNM wrote:I think he left in a fit several months ago. It was unfortunate.
Care to expand on that? I never saw any forum or comment post suggesting that Ghandi was out of line or something. At least, nothing like pluscard or other trolls. He had all the good news on anything Apple-related.
SNM wrote:I haven't seen 64-bit only anywhere.
tanker27 wrote:Sooooo is 10.6 gonna be free (I am not gonna be holding my breath for the answer but am curious)
riviera74 wrote:Finally, Apple is ditching PPC support . I hope that speeds up OSX 10.6 quite a bit. The last PPC Mac was sold about three years ago, I believe . Does that mean that Mac OSX will finally be fully 64-bit?
riviera74 wrote:Does that mean that Mac OSX will finally be fully 64-bit?
derFunkenstein wrote:Ooh, Exchange support for Mail.app, Address Book, and iCal makes Entourage completely obsolete.
OpenCL looks pretty sweet, as well...hopefully AMD and nVidia completely support it.
End User wrote:riviera74 wrote:Finally, Apple is ditching PPC support . I hope that speeds up OSX 10.6 quite a bit. The last PPC Mac was sold about three years ago, I believe . Does that mean that Mac OSX will finally be fully 64-bit?
The last PPC was sold in August of 2006 (less than two years ago).
Leopard is a 64-bit OS.
Leopard is too sluggish for you? What are you running it on? Leopard runs just fine on my Dual 2.7 G5.
It will be interesting to see how Snow Leopard performs on early/current Core Duo/Core 2 Duo based hardware vs hardware released post Snow Leopard.
UberGerbil wrote:They can't take the kernel fully 64bit without blowing up their drivers (of course it's a bit easier in the Mac world with less hardware to worry about, more of it in-house, and a generally newer codebase). They also orphan the first of the Intel MacBooks, which used 32bit-only Yonahs.
Forge wrote:If it leaves my Core Duo iMac out, I leave it out.
It'll run great on my Hackintosh main box, but meh, when your Mac can't run OSX, seems odd to have your beige box run it instead.
adisor19 wrote:And that added complexity extends to third-party hardware too, of course.Snow Leopard will come in 2 transparent versions 32bit and 64bit depending on what type of machine it is being installed on.