Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Jun 2008 19:04 UTC
Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard, may only be six months old, but rumours are already abound as to the next update to Apple's operating system. According to several sources, it's going to be called Snow Leopard, it won't contain any major new features, and is planned to go gold master December 2008, available a month later. The big rumour: it's going to be available for 64bit Intel machines only.
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In theory, applications can be PPC, Intel or Universal Binaries and as such the OS can be one of either as well.
Every Leopard Install DVD contains Universal Binaries to make it run on either of Apple's two supported platforms. This means that Applications will take up more space than actually needed, no matter the hardware platform.
At work I have images of a 10.4.11 installation, complete with all security updates and every needed application; one for PPC and one for Intel.
The Intel image - primarily made of Universal Binaries - take up at least 80% more space than the PPC image containing the same set of everything, but with less Universal Binaries to fill up its belly ...