Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Aug 2009 18:46 UTC
Even though Apple has been hyping up the 64bit nature of its ucpoming Snow Leopard operating system, stating it will be the first Mac OS X release to be 64bit top-to-bottom, reality turns out to be a little bit different so far. With the current Snow Leopard seed, only Xserve users get the 64bit kernel and drivers - all other Macs default to 32bit. By holding down the '6' and '4' keys during boot, you can to boot into full 64bit mode - that is, if your Mac supports it. As it turns out, some Macs with 64bit processors cannot use the 64bit kernel because the EFI is 32bit. Note: I should have included in the article that 64bit applications will run just fine (including benefits) on a 32bit kernel in Mac OS X. Since this was already possible in Leopard, I assumed people were well aware of that. Turns out some were not, so my apologies for that.
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I think what he's getting at is that regardless of what Apple does, Thom Holwerda always summarizes the article in a negative way. It has nothing to do with the article and more to do with Thom's over zealous and seeming brewing hostility towards Apple. I'm not saying Thom's hatred is specific to Apple - he seems to hate other things as well. I'm sure you can find summaries on this site that make it seem like an Apple hate site.