appleinsider.com — Next year's 10.6 reference release of Mac OS X promises to deliver technology updates throughout the system without focusing on the customer-facing marketing features that typically sell a new operating system. Here's a look at what those behind-the-scenes enhancements will mean to you, starting with new 64-bit support.
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archer75Aug 27, 2008
Because snow leopard isn't a new feature set. Apple knows that leopard is buggy and has performance issues. Snow Leopard is apple taking the time to fix that. People shouldn't have to pay for bug fixes and security updates for their current product.
moisieAug 27, 2008
Yeah, 'cos 64bit is just about having more physical ram.
moisieAug 27, 2008
And they're perfectly free to do so.
digudownAug 27, 2008
4) buy over priced hardware and get software free?
cwt137Aug 27, 2008
Wow, that was one of the best articles ever written by AppleInsider IMO. At some points, I thought I was reading an article at Ars technica.
zippyvAug 27, 2008
@ awhiteflame:A very large part of Vista's kernel has been rewritten. Other low level systems like the networking, audio and graphical stack. And NTFS received some new features too.
rebotfcAug 28, 2008
Well i think the problem is you still need to install a 64bit version of the OS instead of the 32bit version.