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I received my new Macbook Pro on Friday and overall I've got to say I'm very impressed. It's going to take some getting used to but that's to be expected after almost 30 years of using PCs.
One thing I was surprised by though was the fact that Snow Leopard boots up in 32 bit mode by default on the Macbook Pro, so I figured I'd point that out to other folks switching over who might think their 64 bit machine will boot in 64 mode by default. I stumbled across the following article while doing some research on performance with Photoshop, so I checked my system using the steps outlined in the article and, sure enough, it was 32 bit.
Macintosh Performance Guide: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Booting the 64-bit Kernel
Perhaps this will change with the next upgrade of the Macbooks as it recently did with the Mac Pro line but, for now, it appears that you need to tell the system to boot in 64 bit.
One thing I was surprised by though was the fact that Snow Leopard boots up in 32 bit mode by default on the Macbook Pro, so I figured I'd point that out to other folks switching over who might think their 64 bit machine will boot in 64 mode by default. I stumbled across the following article while doing some research on performance with Photoshop, so I checked my system using the steps outlined in the article and, sure enough, it was 32 bit.
Macintosh Performance Guide: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Booting the 64-bit Kernel
Perhaps this will change with the next upgrade of the Macbooks as it recently did with the Mac Pro line but, for now, it appears that you need to tell the system to boot in 64 bit.