Linked by Jeremy T. Fox on Fri 11th Jul 2003 16:55 UTC
A recent article by Tony Smith from The Register titled "Mac OS X 10.3 Panther will not be a 64-bit OS" caused a good deal of confusion with many people, including me. It is also caused a heated argument here on OSNews. The basic point of the article is that Mac OS 10.2.7 and 10.3 are not "true" 64-bit OSes, but the article does not clearly explain what a "true" 64-bit OS is. This had led to a lot of claims that the article is false or misinformed, rather than just unclear, which is certainly is.
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The one killer app for a 64 bit desktop is video edititing. Here the massive address space can be used to advantage. It is also the sort of creative area that Apple has targeted. If some one can produce a 64 bit video editing software program that runs on the the hybrid 64/32 bit version of OS X then both Apple and the program developers could make a killing.
If they don't do it quickly then they might find this niche filled by Linux or Windows on IA64.