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Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.6.2 Build 10C527f to Developers
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Like I said, only the iPod/iPhone drivers are 64 bit on Vista 64. iTunes is 32 bit.
Lets stop talking about iTunes and 64-bit technology, and get back to the original topic of this thread.
I'm looking for more stability in Safari as I still get the occasional spinning beach ball hang. At over 400Gb that's quite a whale of a patch. Let's hope it gets thoroughly tested before release. I anxious to get it but not so much if it intros worse bugs.
I like how this is coming along. Good to see the guest account issue addressed - that sounded like a doozey!
I haven't seen specific mention of a fix for the broken sorting within stacks that has been in SL since at least WWDC, and that one is still really my biggest gripe, but I can't imagine it has been skipped over again!
Having said that, I fully expect them to not fix the iTunes dashboard widget crash issues, for the 22nd consecutive update, including Leopard and Snow Leopard themselves ... so maybe I shouldn't hold my breath
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I haven't seen specific mention of a fix for the broken sorting within stacks that has been in SL since at least WWDC, and that one is still really my biggest gripe, but I can't imagine it has been skipped over again!
Having said that, I fully expect them to not fix the iTunes dashboard widget crash issues, for the 22nd consecutive update, including Leopard and Snow Leopard themselves ... so maybe I shouldn't hold my breath
.The issue is that devburke doesn't understand and will be spreading misinformation by saying iTunes 9 is 64-bit. It is not. Even on top of an x64 copy of Windows, the only difference between the two installers is that one provides x64 SIGNED DRIVERS REQUIRED BY MICROSOFT for the iPod/iPhone/etc.. and the other one does not.
There is no x64 iTunes, only x64 drivers for the devices iTunes connects to.
The problem is when you delete the already read threads they reappear when you open Mail back up. Blowing away the Preferences for Mail or the feeds for RSS (and recreating them) then reappear bug comes back on RSS.
I even submitted an Apple Bug Report and they replied that they were aware if the problem and the fix is coming, hopefully in 10.6.2.
In case either of you is serious, this 10.6.2 update is over 400 MB; not GB.
There's no need to buy an external terabyte drive for the update.
Thanks for the reply.
I had mail set up as POP. And I had no problem with RSS messages being deleted. A few days ago, I switched to IMAP and I experienced exactly the phenomenon that you detailed. So I switched the RSS feed to no longer appear in my inbox.
But it would be great if this is fixed as a part of 10.6.2.
MS is planning ahead. Windows 7 64bit is rock solid. Can't say the same for Apple's half baked Snow Leopard's 64bit implementation now can we? Should MS stick to 64bit till developers get of their asses and develop 64bit apps?
In this business you have only three choices. You either lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Please, that's all nonsense. (Except for Apple's half-baked x64 implementation, of course)
64-bit is 4 billion times bigger than 32-bit. It would support 16 billion GiB of RAM even without memory management tricks (remember that Intel Windows and Linux servers can support 64 GiB of RAM on a purely 32-bit system).
No chipmaker has 128-bit CPUs on the roadmap, and possibly never will.
Someone took a joke comment as serious - take a few chill pills (I recommend a nice Sonoma-Cutrer chardonnay, with some free range goat cheese and organic whole wheat biscuits).
That would be awesome. I don't understand why they do not have this already, since they have been offering SSDs for a while now.
What chip manufacturer do you work for? Windows 8 128bit in 2011 might be a bit ahead of it's time. Then again you never know. Maybe 10.7 will have a stable 64bit platform by then.
You don't realize how silly your question is, do you? Or did you just leave off the smiley face?
Intel's roadmap through 2011 is public - no 128-bit CPUs on it. (I know more detail through Intel NDA disclosures, but that doesn't change my stance.)
What is the sole force driving the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit - it is the fact that having a 2 GiB to 4 GiB address space per process is too small for the leading edge applications today. (It's not a 4 GiB per system problem, we've had 64 GiB support for systems for many years.)
64-bit raises the limit to 16 billion GiB.
Dell is selling dual Xeon workstations today with 192 GiB of RAM. Nice, but the CTO addon price for 192 GiB is $207K.
So, 64-bit is good for a system with a memory cost of $2.4 trillion dollars in today's money. Let's take an absurdly optimistic estimate that memory prices decrease by a factor of 10 each year - that means that in 2011 a 64-bit CPU could address $24 billion dollars of RAM.
As I said, you don't realize how silly your question is, do you?
(I'm ignoring the issue that electrical and timing issues limit a system to a small number of DIMM slots. Assuming the 64-bit limit, a system with 16 DIMM slots (a very high number, by the way) would need 1000 PebiByte (1024 petabyte) DIMMs.)
OMG this 64bit and now 128bit discussion is so insane! Why does this even matter we are barely into the beginnings of the 64bit one and we are looking for 128 in 2011? When has MS released a complete rework of their OS in less than 2 years?
The 32bit processors served us darn well for what 20+ years? We are discussing switching to 128bit already? This 64bit hype (partly fueled by Apple) is out of control and so aggravating.
The 32bit processors served us darn well for what 20+ years? We are discussing switching to 128bit already? This 64bit hype (partly fueled by Apple) is out of control and so aggravating.
Just let these techie-nerds puff up their chests and keep trying to prove each other wrong. They'll fizzle out soon enough.
The '128-bit Windows' thing was started because somebody saw an MS employee's online social profile that indicated 128-bit Windows. People have taken that to mean 128-bit CPU address/register width, which is insane. (Notwithstanding SSE registers, etc.)
Assuming the reference was accurate in the first place (it could have been an inside joke, after all), it may be referring to anything that might be 128-bit on Windows. Like filesystem units, cloud computing object references, or IPv6 addresses.
There is no 128-bit Windows coming anytime soon.
Assuming the reference was accurate in the first place (it could have been an inside joke, after all), it may be referring to anything that might be 128-bit on Windows. Like filesystem units, cloud computing object references, or IPv6 addresses.
There is no 128-bit Windows coming anytime soon.
I bet LEX750 is from Neowin site. Since you want to be to be a jerk, remember when you precious Windows Vista came out the first time? Wow! I remember working at Best Buy how every retarded customer bitched how no apps was not working and had driver problems and that they wanted to downgrade to XP.
Well Snow Leopard is the same finally moving to 64bit and most apps are not updated yet and most of the morons complaining about Snow Leopard probably are downloading non compatible Snow Leopard apps and bitch why it is not working. To add more about Windows Vista it was not stable after few years and most people still using XP (Not me of course).
Do you really know why and what for 64 bits are useful?
For sure marketing 64 bits vs 32 bits is a catchy slogan... but 99% of people don't know what's the difference and 99.9% don't know that for their use of OS and apps won't matter at all...
Perhaps we are going to start seeing a trend of numbers with OS as we saw with processor speed, later on with number of cores, then bus speed,... and almost 99% of the time a computer is turned on, not even 10% of that power is used (but companies cash a lot thanks to this
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I can't wait until this update comes out, hopefully this will make SL much better, and hopefully fix all (or a lot of) the issues other people are having.