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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Nobody is running a 64 bit kernel with Snow Leopard by default....although many of the apps are 64 bit of course.
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True, I don't even know how to enable it lol.
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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
In this regard Apple chose compatibility over 64-bit pureness, a decision that differs from the one Microsoft took. Different companies, different priorities.
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Or Windows is such a mess that it would have been impossible to just boot with a 32 or 64-bit kernel and they had to create a whole different OS, whereas given OSX's unixy innards they got this ability almost for free.
I'm going with the Windows being a mess version
