An interesting article in Info World.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/windows/snow-leopard-just-cheap-windows-7-knockoff-798
Quoted from the first para..
"Where's the beef?" That's the idiom that jumps to mind as I work my
way through Galen Gruman's
"<http://www.infoworld.com/d/mac/7-best-features-in-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-573>The
7 best features in Mac OS X Snow Leopard." I knew the features list
would be lean -- Apple has deliberately undersold Snow Leopard by
pitching it as a relatively minor release -- but please! Gruman's
article reads like a laundry list of borrowed features and
derivative works. It's as if someone at Apple grabbed a copy of the
Windows 7 beta and simply Xeroxed the release notes.
For example:
64-bitness: Yippee,! Apple finally goes 64-bit -- BFD! As a Windows
user, I've been livin' la vida 64-bit for more than three years.
Vista was the first mainstream desktop OS to deliver a viable 64-bit
experience, and Windows 7 has taken this migration further by making
it the preferred flavor for business users.
Maybe I will get banned for bringing this up.
I have my reynolds wrap hat on to deflect the AFB's barbs.
Rich
At 03:16 PM 8/25/2009, you wrote:
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:58:38 -0400
From: TPiwowar <[email protected]>
Subject: Mac Transition to 64-Bit
This explains a lot. Some things run in 32 bit, some in 64 bit. It
all depends.
http://www.ahatfullofsky.comuv.com/English/Programs/SMS/SMS.html
"There is a lot of confusion about the fact that Snow Leopard starts
by default with a 32-bit kernel even though nearly everything else is
64-bit (according to Apple all system applications except DVD Player,
Front Row, Grapher, and iTunes have been rewritten in 64-bit)."
"Snow Leopard is 64-bit for all users with a 64-bit CPU. The
applications are, the memory space is. The ONLY THING that doesn't
load into 64-bit - ON PURPOSE - is the kernel!"
"The problem is compatibility with third-party drivers. Some programs
are so deeply intertwined with the OS that they reach deeply into its
bowels and modify its core, the kernel - these drivers are called
kernel extensions (or kext)."
BTW, the new Mac OS ships this Friday.
M$'s Vista replacement is still way out there in the future.
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