Is it also fixing security bugs or does it fixe some general macOS bugs related to Spotlight and Finder?
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macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 Displays Warnings When Opening 32-Bit Apps as Part of Apple's Phase Out Plan
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Great! Get rid of legacy bloat! However I feel my 2011 17” MacBook Pro has reached the end of line as far as macOS updates. High Sierra is the end of the line if I were a gambling man.
No, that's not how it works. macOS is already 64-bit and has been for a long time; if you have 4GB then you have 4GB.
--Eric
Surprised the GPU hasn't given up on life yet.
That still works on Sierra?! Wow.... I really think you ought to make the move to X, Premiere, Avid or DaVinci though. They're all good NLEs. 7 just isn't up to snuff anymore.
People complained a lot in the beginning of X' life, but it's actually a brillant NLE at this point.
Premiere will feel relatively similar to FCP 7 and a lot of people say it's what FCP 7 would be if Apple didn't change direction with X. Avid is Hollywood's classic and it half expects you to come straight from cutting film rolls with scissors. And DaVinci is the newest player in the pro NLE space. Black Magic is the undisputed king of the colourists' workflows, but with the newer versions of Resolve (DaVinci), editors can now move comfortably to the software as well. And it's really fast. Competing with FCPX on speed. (Both use Metal 2). Premiere loses big time on speed. Then again, coming from FCP 7, anything is blazing.
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I think what the comment says is that he/she has a MacBook that came with 4GB of RAM, but one of the sticks is broken, so it's only 2GB. I don't know how it relates to the 64-bit thing.
You can also do this in System Information. It’s better because it lists all the apps on your system—no need to run them.
Note that this is not a default display in Activity Monitor. You have to select "kind" in View/Columns menu to see this information.
I'm not sure I care for this method of warning when they aren't telling you how long you've got before that app has to be replaced. I note for example that the old iWork apps are 32-bit, which means Apple will be warning that their own apps will be obsoleted at some unknown future date. If it's mission critical, you are SOL, even if it's an Apple app. So is the version of FileMakerPro I use and have no other reason to upgrade.
Gotcha.... Such lovely systems the 2011s..... I still have bitter feelings towards my old one
Some people will not upgrade, but this is not a reason to continue to support 32-but apps.
Actually it does the exact opposite.
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Google is your friend:
https://security.stackexchange.com/...-any-security-merits-over-32-bit-applications
It's default in the CPU pane. And as someone else stated, all executables, not just the running ones, can be seen in System Information and it can be detected that way.
They will tell you before the update that kills support comes out. They did for iOS. They said "In this version we'll show the warnings, in the next major release they die". At WWDC you'll most likely be told.
The current version of iWork is 64-bit. I don't see what Apple can do about old versions of software not being 64-bit. That's what the update is for.
Regarding FileMaker, I see two options - Get FileMaker updated, or don't get macOS updated when the killing blow comes. You can't expect endless support.
And I would like to reiterate that you still have support right now.
I'm still expecting Adobe to claim 'nobody told us this was going to happen' when 32 bit code is finally stopped working sometime in 2019.
Having 32-bit apps stop working is significantly more of a negative impact to a user than having two folders for programs.
In any case this doesn't apply because MacOS uses one folder.
They’ll stop working in 10.15. So, ~September 2019. And of course, you won’t have to upgrade right away.
It's really just conjecture on your part with no substantiated evidence to support it. In terms of 64-bit hashes, user land apps that are 64-bit have been running on systems since 32-bit Snow Leopard. Another point which I don't think bears scrutiny.
If I am right then that's the 09' iWork suite version, right?
Well, I love the old iWork as much as anyone. I still keep them around as well, in conjunction with the new ones. But I very rarely go back to the old iWork, because I'm aware they are EOL. If you save a file in the 09 format, who's to tell it'll even open in any program a few years from now? Sometimes you have to kill your darlings. If you rely on the old iWork for one reason or another, your only solution is to not update macOS. It's that simple. But until the 32-bit killing blow, all is still fine (although even without killing 32-bit apps, you might have noticed parts of the old iWork not working quite as expected. Things change even if it doesn't fully break support)