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teacherrob9
Mar 29, 2006, 07:55 PM
with that knowledge, will people be able to partition their discs to run both on the intel macs? I'm not familiar with the difference between 32 and 64 bit, but I'm trying to do all the research prior to buying my mac. thanks in advance.


treblah
Mar 29, 2006, 08:02 PM
The current iMac does not have a 64bit processor but when it does having a 64/32 dual boot is theoretically possible.

Not to mention the iMac's max RAM is 2GB… :rolleyes:
Benjamindaines
Mar 29, 2006, 08:07 PM
Not to mention the iMac's max RAM is 2GB… :rolleyes:
That is my biggest complaint with the iMac. Although 2GB is fine for my iMac (I do all the video editing on the PowerMac), Apple should make it so the back of the iMac comes off again, then you can easily pack in more RAM slots rather then this silly plate that comes off on the bottom.
timswim78
Mar 30, 2006, 02:27 PM
with that knowledge, will people be able to partition their discs to run both on the intel macs? I'm not familiar with the difference between 32 and 64 bit, but I'm trying to do all the research prior to buying my mac. thanks in advance.

From what I understand, Vista will run on both 32 bit and 64 bit systems.
Xephian
Mar 30, 2006, 05:59 PM
From what I understand, Vista will run on both 32 bit and 64 bit systems.
Yeah, there will be two versions of each Vista for 32 and 64 bit systems.
mojohanna
Mar 30, 2006, 06:10 PM
OS X is a 64 bit operating system, is it not? If an iMac or anyother machine for that matter, has a CPU that is only 32 bit, you will not get the benefits of a 64 bit OS.

Someone correct me if I am wrong but I dont think that this is a big deal that vista will be 64 bit. OS X has been since it came out.
Benjamindaines
Mar 30, 2006, 06:16 PM
Someone correct me if I am wrong but I dont think that this is a big deal that vista will be 64 bit. OS X has been since it came out.
Actually, 64 bit only came about with Tiger. Even still OS X is not a true 64 bit OS, it just has 64 bit compatibility (I'm not sure how to word that so I'm sure someone can amend it)
mojohanna
Mar 30, 2006, 07:33 PM
Actually, 64 bit only came about with Tiger. Even still OS X is not a true 64 bit OS, it just has 64 bit compatibility (I'm not sure how to word that so I'm sure someone can amend it)
That would be the case if all macs had 64 bit chips an that tiger was optimized to take advantage, no?
FF_productions
Mar 31, 2006, 10:32 AM
Isn't the iMac G5 64 bit?
mlrproducts
Mar 31, 2006, 10:56 AM
The iMac G5 is 64 bit (as the G5 chip is). Tiger has 64-bit address calls - certain programs can use the 64 bit code.