I'm an easy-going PC user with no strong opinions regarding PC vs. Mac. However, posts like this make me stare in awe at the Mac culture. You see, if I understood correctly, the Snow Leopard doesn't support any 32-bit software? And the Mac people think it's all cool. Sheesh! I still run some nice software written in the 90's in my 64-bit Vista box just fine without any special tweaking.
The good thing is that now all Mac software vendors are forced to support 64-bit, which is nice because it speeds up the transition and weeds out all unmaintained rubbish software, keeping the Mac software fresh.
But still... Upgrade to Snow Leopard, spend a few days compiling stuff, be able to use only software that is available as 64-bit, maybe even be forced to pay for upgrades (whenever they may appear)... And you're still happy? Now that's a bad-ass culture, I'd say.
To ensure simplicity and flexibility, Mac OS X still comes in one version that runs both 64-bit and 32-bit applications. So you don’t need to update everything on your system just to run a single 64-bit program.
I'm an easy-going PC user with no strong opinions regarding PC vs. Mac. However, posts like this make me stare in awe at the Mac culture. You see, if I understood correctly, the Snow Leopard doesn't support any 32-bit software? And the Mac people think it's all cool. Sheesh! I still run some nice software written in the 90's in my 64-bit Vista box just fine without any special tweaking.
The good thing is that now all Mac software vendors are forced to support 64-bit, which is nice because it speeds up the transition and weeds out all unmaintained rubbish software, keeping the Mac software fresh.
But still... Upgrade to Snow Leopard, spend a few days compiling stuff, be able to use only software that is available as 64-bit, maybe even be forced to pay for upgrades (whenever they may appear)... And you're still happy? Now that's a bad-ass culture, I'd say.
Not to worry the whole mac culture is looking back at you and thinking. Yep, there's another PC user that doesn't understand the 64/32 bit integration of Snow Leopard.
But don't fret over us our 32 bit apps run fine still. To give a base of comparison the 32/64bit issue with jumping to Snow Leopard is even less of an issue then the compatibility problems that came up when XP 64 came out. Namely a few driver issues with 3rd party devices and a small list of generally legacy apps that where only ever designed to work with a 32bit core.
True enough. But then it depends on the two sides arguing. Fanboy vs Fanboy never gets anywhere. Informed macheads vs informed pc users usually accept to split the difference
Thrax
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The good thing is that now all Mac software vendors are forced to support 64-bit, which is nice because it speeds up the transition and weeds out all unmaintained rubbish software, keeping the Mac software fresh.
But still... Upgrade to Snow Leopard, spend a few days compiling stuff, be able to use only software that is available as 64-bit, maybe even be forced to pay for upgrades (whenever they may appear)... And you're still happy? Now that's a bad-ass culture, I'd say.
Not to worry the whole mac culture is looking back at you and thinking. Yep, there's another PC user that doesn't understand the 64/32 bit integration of Snow Leopard.
But don't fret over us our 32 bit apps run fine still. To give a base of comparison the 32/64bit issue with jumping to Snow Leopard is even less of an issue then the compatibility problems that came up when XP 64 came out. Namely a few driver issues with 3rd party devices and a small list of generally legacy apps that where only ever designed to work with a 32bit core.