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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Member since:2007-06-12
actually the point i was trying to make was that Intel was responsible for maintaining and creating the drivers, not apple.
however as indicated above, machines that shipped with a GMA were pretty low end machines to begin with and wouldn't take advantage of the additional memory from a 64bit kernel.
and while there are some improvements, performance wise all benchmarks indicate marginal improvements in some cases.
again, my original point was to correct the statement that Apple creates all drivers, they don't. When they order certain hardware, they also get the drivers with the features they request.
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2005-07-06
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.