(image found on appleinsider.com)More information is coming out about the next Release of Mac OS X, dubbed "Snow Leopard". This new release will offer a 32 or 64 bit operating system to the end user to use.
"Snow Leopard is only designed to run on a relatively small number of higher end PCs, all made by Apple. Rather than trying to get lots of vendors on board as Microsoft must, Apple will be supplying the majority of kernel-level drivers for Snow Leopard.
While Microsoft has sold a 64-bit version of Windows for Intel x86 PCs since mid-2005, actual 64-bit adoption has been slow. Apple has incrementally supported 64-bit background servers and applications in Mac OS X since the release of the PowerMac G5 in 2003; all 64-bit capable Macs can already run 64-bit Mac OS X software because Apple doesn't offer two versions of its operating system; the same version of today's Leopard runs both 32-bit and 64-bit code."
This is an interesting time seeing how Microsoft just released their Windows 7 beta for the public to see and is working on getting everyone to forget Vista and move forward. This year should be very interesting seeing that rumors have it that Apple will be releasing the New OS in summer of 2009 Microsoft could have a major uphill battle to deal with if Apple is as successful as it has been in the consumer market place.
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