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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>By Anonymous (IP: ---.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com) - Posted on >2003-07-11 15:48:44
>Panther in beta has more eye candy than Jaguar and is >dramatically faster than its predecessor. So they're >focussing on feature-set expansion and optimization - not one >or the other.
Well, historically eye candy affects performance, are you saying that Panther IS the exception? Do you use Panther? Do you run YellowDog on the same box?
Of course, Apple claims improvements, I am sure programmers are assigned to this, but clearly eye candy and not performance is Apple priority. So I could not say that Apple doesn't work on performance, but I can say that they don't do enough on that area, and do more on eye candy, as the beta Panther prooves.
Granted is a safe bet for Apple, becuase their user base, seem to be willing to sacrifice power for looks, but one could hope that Apple will break into other markets, they insinuated a Scientific market with the hardware [G5] but believe me it takes more than hardware, a powerful OS must go with it, and so far is not there.