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dlisle20
Jan 3, 2005, 08:47 AM
Apparantly, the new OS by Apple will emulate a 64 bit processor so slower machines will run it faster. Apple seemed to have kept this silent because it is kind of cheating. Would a 64 bit 1GHZ G4 be faster than a 3GHZ pentium 4? :confused:
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17" PowerBook 1GHZ 512 Ram



gwuMACaddict
Jan 3, 2005, 08:52 AM
not news (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=100075&highlight=tiger)

the search function works really well on this site. i notice this is your first day posting...

as for the question about which is faster? will be different for different applications...