It’s too bad that Apple is being thrown left and right by Adobe and now this. Apple announces that their new version of OS X 10.3 Panther will not be a 64-bit operating system, even though it will be running on a 64-bit processor
“Instead, the next major release of the Mac operating system will be a hybrid, much like version 10.2.7, codenamed ‘Smeagol’, which Apple has running on its pre-production Power Mac G5 machines and with which it will almost certainly ship production units.” [The Register]
Hey- I’m just reporting the news to fellow readers. Maybe I should’ve been more clear about that
So what? An OS gains very little by making “everything” 64-bit. It wastes more space and time. Very, very, very, very, very, very, very little of an OS needs to be updated to 64-bits to be a successful – and optimal – system.