64-bit

[siravarice]

One of my friends said the other day that macs are crap and pc's are good. This may be, but his reasoning was that macs dont have 64bit processors. Is this true? Thought almost all processors nowadays were 64bit?

[Ghosthud1]

hmmmmmmmm? im sure most macs use xeon cpu's? which are 32bit/64bit

edit: im correct and your friend needs a slap

[f0x.]

Your friend needs an award. having used macs for then main purpose, well according to most people, for photoshop, i can tell you that they suck. All the key combinations are more awkward, the legendary "macs never crash" is also untrue, they hang, they sit there looking at you like the overpriced peices of good marketing they are.

I.E dont buy a mac if you intend to do anything serious at all on it, possible exception Final Cut pro, but i still prefer sony vegas >.>

[siravarice]

Nice Fox, but 64bit processors? I know macs are generally crap, but having used one for a while i do know how they are appealing. I think its called a niche market ><

[Luigi]

The new ones have intel processors so they should have 64bit, unless somehow they disable it in the bios or the os doesnt support it?

[Brooksie]

Only Apple product I own is the iPhone. Never bought a Mac, never will.

I've been on a Mac like twice, which was when I was testing a website using safari

[f0x.]

While they do have 64 bit procs, it doesnt make a difference as they runa 32bit linux based kernal. If your are going to run windows on it, 64 bit isnt that much of a niche market anymore, more and more apps are being written in 64bit, we will all eventually change over, just a matter of time imo

[equk]

The new macs run a 64bit based unix (bsd) kernel and are optimized for 64bit.

You can check if 64bit is enabled in the system profiler of mac osx

If you want to know more you can check the wikipedia page for snowleopard

Mac OS X Tiger added limited support for 64-bit applications on machines with 64-bit processors; Leopard extended the support for 64-bit applications to include applications using most of Mac OS X's libraries and frameworks.

In Snow Leopard, most built-in applications have been rebuilt to leverage the 64-bit x86-64 architecture (excluding iTunes, Front Row, Grapher and DVD Player applications).[19] They will run in 32-bit mode on machines with 32-bit processors, and in 64-bit mode on machines with 64-bit processors.

In addition, the Mac OS X kernel has been rebuilt to run in 64-bit mode on some machines. On those machines, Snow Leopard supports up to 16 terabytes of RAM. Newer Xserve and Mac Pro machines will run a 64-bit kernel by default;

[equk]

Would also add that after using various operating systems I would rather use OSX for graphical/design work than any other as it's far more responsive and the interface is so much better.

Windows 7 has copied/borrowed a lot from it but OSX is still more responsive (prob from the unix base).

I use linux/windows/osx and like them all for certain things.

(Am using windows 7 x64 at the moment)

[siravarice]

I like how everyone says Windows 7 has stolen a lot of stuff from the Mac OS. I don't feel it has, most people usually go on about the taskbar buttons now, but they were always there, just not so developed.