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Panther Will Not be a 64-bit OS
rouge86 writes "The Register has an article on what Mac OS X 10.3 will be like. Mac OS X 10.3, aka Panther, will not be a 64-bit operating system, despite 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." You mean they didn't rewrite the entire operating system from the ground up? And that it will run on older, 32-bit, Macs? I am shocked!
Aw... poor widdle puddy is all mad that his pet computer isn't fast any more. Poor puddy.
Get over it. Veritest independently benchmarked the Power Mac G5 against the fastest available single- and dual-processor PC's. The G5 didn't win every test, but it held its own. The truth is that the G5 is more or less as fast in single-processor performance and in dual-processor performance as the fastest PC's available.
At two-thirds the clock speed and something like half the watts.
Woo.
I was talking to my sysadmin friend and he told me that no 64bit OS will work properly on the Internet because of a TCP/IP conflict. So you will need a Mac running Jaguar to act as a TCP bridge to translate the network communications. That is crazy!
Ok, I am just kidding. But someone will believe it.
Brennan Stehling - http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/
Well then, for the feminine side of things, they'd probably need to go with Nermal.
Although, should they do that, there's a good chance their next OS will get drop-shipped to Abu Dhabi.
Actually, the version of OSX that runs on the x86 platform is codenamed "CatDog". No! Seriously!
Anyone know when 10.3 is going to be released? How about G5?
...the top 7 replies basically off-topic? The real informative stuff is half way down the list (sorted highest scores first).
Besides, if Mac OS is Garfield, then Windows is Odie.