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First time looking into this..few questions.

Hello, I'm looking into running the latest Snow Leopard Dual booted with windows 7 64 bit..first of all I have afew questions. Is there a 64 bit of Mac OS X to support more than 4GB of RAM (x64 not x86) If not thats fine Recommended ISO…

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@KeithGS Published 2009-11-06
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Snow Leopard 10.6
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3,571 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 2 dispatches) · 2009-11-06
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Hello, I'm looking into running the latest Snow Leopard Dual booted with windows 7 64 bit..first of all I have afew questions.

  1. Is there a 64 bit of Mac OS X to support more than 4GB of RAM (x64 not x86) If not thats fine
  2. Recommended ISO for installing on the specs I provided below (don't post the link, just the name/version number)
  3. How-to install.. I'm not certain ..I've looked around everyone for a installation guide, even the sticky, I'm not sure.
  4. Will it run on my system? (specs below)
  5. How do I install it on my Netbook (acer aspire 150) will all the hardware work for it?
  6. is there cake?

Specs

Computer Computer Type ACPI x64-based PC Motherboard CPU Type QuadCore AMD Phenom II X4 920, 2982 MHz (14 x 213) Motherboard Name Asus M3N72-D (2 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 2 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Video, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394) Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce 750a SLI, AMD K10 System Memory 7936 MB (DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM) DIMM1:…

Thanks alot for the help everyone, and I hope I posted in the right section, and ..posted legally!

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1 technical responses curated from 2 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @mitchde 2009-11-06

1. > 4GB
Yes, even Mac OS X 10.5 can use much more than 4 GB; 16 GB (4*4 GB) is no problem !

OS X didnt have , like XP, Vista, Win 7 such lowend to highend OS Versions.
You get allinone : OS X is Home up to Ultimatex64 in ONE Version!
Only the Server Versions of OS X are different.

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