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: Mistik jogelour
by Anonymous on Fri 11th Jul 2003 17:24 UTC

"historically eye candy affects performance, are you saying that Panther IS the exception?"

Historically speaking you are correct, but previously, nobody ofset UI rendering to the GPU which allows for lots of UI improvement without a drag on the processor.


"clearly eye candy and not performance is Apple priority."

Clearly? Where do you get that? Apple has performance AND aesthetics as a high priority (as it should be)



"[Apple doesn't] do enough on that area [of performance], and do more on eye candy, as the beta Panther prooves."

I don;t see where you get this. Pather is both aesthetically pleasing AND extremely efficient as was the case with Jaguar. Panther is simply more so... in both areas.


"Granted is a safe bet for Apple, becuase their user base, seem to be willing to sacrifice power for looks"

Not at all. Instead, we demand both.


"but one could hope that Apple will break into other markets, they insinuated a Scientific market with the hardware [G5]"

Apple has had a large presence in scientific fields for many years (even before the G5)


"but believe me it takes more than hardware"

Thankfully, Apple has the powerful hardware and much more.


"a powerful OS must go with it"

Thankfully, they have such an OS.


"and so far is not there."

it certinly is