Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Nov 2009 22:10 UTC, submitted by mckill
We reported on the lack of Atom support in development builds of Mac OS X 10.6.2, but a more recent build re-enables support for Intel's Atom line, popular in netbooks. "In the latest development build Atom appears to have resurrected itself zombie style in 10C535. The Atom lives another day, but nothing is concrete until the final version of 10.6.2 is out."
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I think what he is saying is that the Macs that do come with the GMA card aren't really all that powerful, and also do cannot access more than 4GB memory.
As such running Snow Leopard with the 64bit Kernel isn't going to make much of a difference in performance.
As such running Snow Leopard with the 64bit Kernel isn't going to make much of a difference in performance.
64bit kernel allows better randomisation for ASLR thus improving security, there is a performance penalty running 64bit on a 32bit kernel; there are many other benefits outside simply addressing more than 4GB of memory.
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not that it matters anyways since there is pretty much no real reason a machine with a GMA card could really take advantage of what a 64bit kernel provides.
That makes absolutely no sense what so ever - you need a 64bit GMA extension so that the kernel can run in 64bit mode; it has nothing to do with whether or not the GPU takes advantage of a 64bit kernel. The GPU is absolutely irrelevant to what is being discussed.