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Originally Posted by fryke Switching to 64-bit processors would in no way be screwing early adopters. Mac OS X will run on both 32-bit and 64-bit processors for a long while to come, and 64-bit computers have still got to prove any real-world improvement over 32-bit computers. So far, for consumers as well as most professionals (some special uses spring to mind, of course), it's nothing more than a buzzword. |
Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean it in quite that sense. I meant it in a 'ZOMG! It can run Windoze!!!eleventy-one' sense. Without that CSM, dual-booting is an exercise of high-risk until 64-bit chips come out and we can run Vista or XP 64 on those. Drivers would be barrels of fun though, now that I think about it... Apple is keeping quite a bit of custom interfaces in their machines, even though the core chipset is standard Intel fare.
Quite simply, I give /very/ good odds towards the prediction that anyone who buys one of these 32-bit Intel systems will not be running Windows stand-alone on them for a very, very, very long time.