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Detailed Technical Look at Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
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I haven't upgraded yet.. My Mac runs great as it is. Im still thinking about the doing the upgrade.
I remember when Windows XP came out and I had to upgrade a few computers and all the hell windows gave me just to do a stupid system upgrade... I guess windows has burned nightmares into my head. I doubt that I would have any problems with the snow leapoard...
I remember when Windows XP came out and I had to upgrade a few computers and all the hell windows gave me just to do a stupid system upgrade... I guess windows has burned nightmares into my head. I doubt that I would have any problems with the snow leapoard...
Actually, the main difference is that Apple is slowly moving all of their users to 64-bit.
Microsoft quickly moved some of their users to 64-bit.
As they are both currently in transition it's kind of hard to compare those 2 strategies right now. They both have pros and cons at the moment. But in 2 years I think that Microsoft's way is going to seem like a mistake when they're still trying to juggle 2 different systems and forcing the user to decide which one to get.
Right now no average users are really thinking about 64 bit on either platform. In 2011 I predict that Apple users still won't be thinking about it (the transition will go unnoticed by most) but your average Window user will finallyl be thinking about it, but in a confused way, not in a good way.
I think that's the main problem with the way Windows is handling it. Most users have no clue what 32-bit and 64-bit mean. I like the way Apple is doing it because the user doesn't have to choose, the OS takes care of it.
a lot of drivers on Windows x64 still run in 32 bit mode. they just run in the WOW, Windows on Windows space. we have a lot of x64 servers running Windows 2003 Server and a lot of the most recent HP drivers are still 32 bit. we had some issues 2 years ago, but they were all solved
Nobody says that's how it's going to be. John simply says this would have a lot going for it (and I agree)
Whatever. Too long, did not read.
Press and hold '6' and '4' on the keyboard during boot-up to boot into 64-bit mode. Only works on "newer machines," whatever that means.
Press and hold '6' and '4' on the keyboard during boot-up to boot into 64-bit mode. Only works on "newer machines," whatever that means.
And this is what I was talking about when I said the transition still has a few more years to go!
Lol.
But seriously, for the poster who said they want Apple to release a new OS every 3-4 years like Microsoft - that would be horrible.
That was one of my favorite switching points from a PC - XP was out FOREVER, and desperately needed an upgrade. I enjoy getting a new OS every 1.5 to 2 years; if a new feature/app comes along, we don't have to wait 4 years for Apple to implement it in their OS. That's how Apple can stay ahead the game too.
When Vista was released, it was horrible (speed, performance, driver issues) - sure some service packs came and improved it ever-so-slightly, but users had to wait 3 years to get Windows 7 (the speed/reliability Vista should have had).
Microsoft has for as long as i can remember been pushing Window on x86, Apple on the other hand has went from PPC to x86 in the last 3 years.
I have not seen Apple changing architectures every two years. And in the PPC era both Apple and Microsoft had very long support times for OS upgrades such as OS X 10.4 running on 266 MHz G3's and Windows XP running on Pentium 2 400 MHz systems which by the times standards, were as today these systems are not even on the same level as a mobile phone.
Yeah, it was twice over the last 30 years.
But I guess that SEEMS like a lot to some people!
If you approach the Apple suite as a whole, then iWeb is actually very simple, as the tools are pretty much the same across the iWork apps.
What is a drag about iWeb however, is its inability to just produce (or even import) vanilla HTML(5), and host it easily wherever you wish... too much tie-in (lock in?) to Mobile Me.
I've worked up a really nice site for my wife's pottery business in iWeb, but I'm reluctant to deploy it to Mobile Me (using DNS aliasing) because it makes me trapped.
10.3 was released in October 2003, G5 was released in June 2003.10.3 supported 64bits. Sure, it was only limited to command-line apps, but still it supported them. And I bet that those were the apps that benefitted the most. In other words, scientific calculations and the like. And even GUI-apps could create a worker process that was 64bits.
For three months or so you could say that it was just "lies and marketing hype". Of course, being the complainer that you are, you focus on that and whine.
This is one of the problems world currently has. People have short attention-spans. Everything must be RIGHT NOW.
Do you also want to receive all the news of the world in 10-second soundbites? Books should be 20 pages long, otherwise they are "too long".
Maybe the re view is long because it provides a lot of insight and detail? But hey, maybe you should just focus on reviews that are two paragraphs long, otherwise you might get confused.
Microsoft has dropped x86 support for Windows Server in the current release, and has stated that x86 will be dropped in the next client release.
Actually if you'd check you'd find that a large percentage (perhaps a majority) of the desktops and laptops at Best Buy and Fry's are already Vista x64. (Any system with 4 GiB of RAM will be x64, and many of the 2 GiB and 3 GiB systems have x64 so that RAM can easily be expanded.)
When Windows 7 systems come out next month, expect to see most of them running x64.
The average Windows user is moving to x64 today...
Your first point is correct, but your second isn't quite true.
Windows Server x86 systems have full PAE support, and 32-bit operating systems can see and manage the full 64 GiB that's available. (As you say, each process only sees 4 GiB of VM.)
Windows desktop systems don't have PAE support. They run the CPU with PAE enabled so that 64-bit VM structures are used (the NX feature is only available when PAE is enabled in the CPU). Desktop Windows doesn't have the rest of the extended address support, so have the same 4 GiB (really 3.something GiB) RAM visibility.
Pretty funny that Ars Technica never got around to reviewing Windows Vista, but spent 23 pages review Snow Leopard!
What really bugs me about Snow Leopard: Will it be 2 years before we see any new features?
It seems there is quit a number of areas where people would want to see some progress made before long...
It seems there is quit a number of areas where people would want to see some progress made before long...
Does this match what you're saying?
http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3781891/Windows+7+May+Trigger+64bit+OS+Adoption.htm
It seems to me that ALL of that (your post and the article) just confirm what I've been saying: The Windows user is going to have to choose which system they want.
Given the rate at which people upgrade machines, I think Microsoft is looking at a 10 year transition starting now.
That was my original point, and everything you've said seems to line up with my guess pretty well.
Read the rest of the post. People have been suggesting the transition to 64 will be complete by the time of 10.8.
That's rubbish. When all 3rd party vendors release their 64 bit kexts we'll be done, and it looks like it won't take long.