On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 08:54 -0700, Sean Kelly wrote: > I think the original Core 2 Duo was 32-bit. People still use these at work, > but they're getting rather long in the tooth. Most of them have failed > already (mine did).
Core Duo was 32-bit, Core 2 Duo was 64-bit. (*) > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 28, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 6/28/2011 3:22 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> OTOH, It seems to be pretty typical, standard, accepted practice in the > >> Apple world for older machines to get abandoned *very* quickly, so maybe > >> 32-bit is already needless on Mac? > > > > Are there any 32 bit x86 Mac machines? My several-years-old mac mini is 64 > > bits. (*) But just because you have a 64-bit processor doesn't mean you can run a 64-bit OS. Mac OS X selects whether to be 32-bit or 64-bit not on the word width processor, but on the word width of the boot PROM. So my Core Duo Mac Mini is happily 32-bit, but my Core 2 Duo MacBook has a hell of a time since Mac OS X says 32-bit and the processor says 64-bit. One can only assume Apple assume that anything over 3 years old is broken and already disposed of to be replaced by a new Apple product. Rant elided. I'll stick with Debian Testing for most of my work. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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