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Originally Posted by pawoSD
Wrong. Apple is currently and has been for a long long while been using 64-bit CPU's. OS 10 is all 64-bit.
64 bit CPU's can handle larger "chunks" of data at once, and more of them, making them even faster when running programs written in 64-bit and designed to take advantage of it. Most average users never remotely need or use these abilities for the most part. Video editing home movies is probably the closed most get. My brother does advanced video animation on his PC, and it can easily suck up a 6-core CPU and 16GB of ram.
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How can I be "wrong". What you said is what I said. Do you think processors actually store information? No, it goes to RAM. Hence 64 bit CPUs/64 bit apps can address larger block of RAM. And, FYI, Snow Leopard does not even boot into 64-bit by default unless its an XServe.