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64bits of sweet action. Tell me if im right.
So someone please tell me if I got my facts right.
1. Leopard OSX is 64bit compatible. 2. Using the -Legacy flag forces 32bit only. 3. Not using the -Legacy flag will allow me to run compatible applications written to support 64bit. But will prevent me from running PPC apps under rosetta? 4. Most drivers (kexts) are not written to take advantage of 64bit. 5. Snow Leopard 10.6 should be a giant step toward 64bit sweet action. MOBO: Z77MX-QUO-AOS CPU: Core i7 3770K GPU: MSI N760 TF 2GD5/OC Case: Modded MacPro2,1 Memory: 32GB Corsair Vengeance (CMY32GX3M4A1600C9) Wifi: Airport Extreme bcm94321MCA BIOS: HermitCrab Labs H3A.816M Monitor: AOC Q2963Pm 29" WFHD 2560x1080 21:9 Interests: KDE on Apple Darwin, Keeping it real with the command line, Helping those that help themselves |
#2
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Yes.
Yes. Yes, taken from: http://www.rosettacommons.org/tiki/t...+Code+Overview Quote:
Hells Yes. We are also looking at the extensions that haven't been updated to take advantage of this from the leap from Leopard to Snow Leopard. ![]() |
#3
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Thanks
Well Im glad im on the right track Ill wait quietly till 10.6 arrives.
Also I keep hearing about a large update (10.5.6) coming soon. I figured that any updates to text would probably be written to support 64bit being this close to Snow Leopard. If that is the case would one benefit from such drivers or would you need a complete upgrade all the way around to see any performance differences. (I do understand that the difference should not be too noticeable and would depend heavily on the applications and in some situations a minor performance decrease might even be seen.) I have installed kexts from Slashack's post on InsanelyMac where he rewrote AppleNforceATA to support 64bit in order to properly address 4GB of memory and I am very please with the results. Before installing I would see problems when I pushed past 3.5GB (3.2GB if I had any PCI cards installed.. Very strange I thought) . Now with the kext installed I have pushed past all but a hair less than 100MB of memory without a crash. MOBO: Z77MX-QUO-AOS CPU: Core i7 3770K GPU: MSI N760 TF 2GD5/OC Case: Modded MacPro2,1 Memory: 32GB Corsair Vengeance (CMY32GX3M4A1600C9) Wifi: Airport Extreme bcm94321MCA BIOS: HermitCrab Labs H3A.816M Monitor: AOC Q2963Pm 29" WFHD 2560x1080 21:9 Interests: KDE on Apple Darwin, Keeping it real with the command line, Helping those that help themselves |
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ya know... I've tried that method and it messed up my ability to read from my internal DVD-RW. since I'm not a part of the dev group for snow leopard OR the 10.5.6 update I can only speculate as well and even then I hold my breath a lot because Apple surprises me around most corners with what they update and how.
One thing I do is to label all my extensions with a single color and then after an update I'll go through and check to see which ones were updated by booting to a different (stable) drive first before I go on to try and boot into the updated one. ![]() |
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DVD drive
Now that you mention it I did have an issue ejecting my drive after the update. I have not used the drive much prior. Ill have to check and see.
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