Star Thoughts on Mac OS X 10.3: Counting the Bits of a Panther
Linked by Jeremy T. Fox on Fri 11th Jul 2003 16:55 UTC
Mac OS X 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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Re: Juggling
by Anonymous on Fri 11th Jul 2003 17:07 UTC

"I would still recomend to "regular" user to hold off and not buy the G5 until we get a MacOSX that is 64bit, with apps."

Not me. I would recomend to all users to go ahead and upgrade if they need the speed.

"If enough people would do that, it would send the signal to Apple, that they need to "OPTIMIZE" their OS as opposed to bringing Advance Hardware to compensated for their ineffiecient code."

Ineffiecient code? Where do you get that? Jaguar is very efficient... especially with Quartz Extreme.


"So instead of Mac users being exited about a new Zebra pattern buble theme, how about getting the OS to be more responsive and the apps to be faster?"

I don;t know any Mac users getting excited about themes, and Jaguar is very responsive and the apps are definately fast will certinly be faster.


"It won't happen though with so many transitions."

Sure it will. The transition to OS X was the only major transition. Upgrading apps to take advantage of OS X's 64 bit technology is somewhat trivial in the grand scheme of things.



"I can tell you that Apple already has Great hardware, the OS is not written to take better advantage of it."

Sure it is. Why would you say that?


"Optimization, could bring Apple a winner on the desktop, that appeal to a wider audince,"

The OS is already optomized, and is getting even more optomized with ever release. Apple is already a winner on the desktop and is appealing to a wider audience.


"not just people who paint their faces with flowers."

What?!


"I know many bussinesses that run Apple, and they certainly could use a boost from a *really* tweaked MacOSX."

Well certinly, and business would benefit from increased productivity and performance. Thankfully, OS X already offeers a great deal of both.


"Even know someone that switched to YellowDog after trying it, he couldn't beleive the same hardware was running so fast."

he must have been using an earlier version of OS X, because it is already very fast.