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New Macbook Pro - 64 Bit?
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1107690" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>Just to be clear, 64-bit doesn't always mean performance improvements. In fact, some software can actually suffer performance degradation.</p><p></p><p>I think for a lot of people who are children of the 80's (when console gaming was big and systems were referred to as 8-bit, 16-bit, etc), we tend to think that if 64-bit is twice as large as 32-bit, it must mean twice the performance. And that's simply not true. </p><p></p><p>Heavy hitter apps like Photoshop or anything particularly calculation intensive will see a boost from running in 64-bit mode. But again, nothing stops you from running a 64-bit app with the 32-bit kernel and extensions running, nor does it mean that the app will run slower.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1107690, member: 24098"] Just to be clear, 64-bit doesn't always mean performance improvements. In fact, some software can actually suffer performance degradation. I think for a lot of people who are children of the 80's (when console gaming was big and systems were referred to as 8-bit, 16-bit, etc), we tend to think that if 64-bit is twice as large as 32-bit, it must mean twice the performance. And that's simply not true. Heavy hitter apps like Photoshop or anything particularly calculation intensive will see a boost from running in 64-bit mode. But again, nothing stops you from running a 64-bit app with the 32-bit kernel and extensions running, nor does it mean that the app will run slower. [/QUOTE]
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