Still not 64-bit! - ArthurLegless

Could you explain why it matters? For Skype specifically?

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Thursday, September 17 2009 @ 11:39 AM PDT

Still not 64-bit! - libertyforall1776

"the move to 64-bit applications also boosts overall performance" - Apple:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/

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Thursday, September 17 2009 @ 01:33 PM PDT

Still not 64-bit! - versiontracker2007

So how much faster do you actually need it? It sits there doing nothing most of the time, how fast can you actually IM, and in what way is Skype not keeping up with video and audio input and output? Your internet connection speed is a more limiting factor, but isn't any different than before you upgraded to 10.6. Yet you're not yelling at your ISP that you need your internet service to be "64-bit".

I'm sure you need Microsoft Word to be 64-bit as well, so that you can word-process faster.

Lately, there's this imaginary *need* for *everything* to be 64-bit. Most people don't need even half their apps to be 64-bit. They just want them to be, which is completely not the same, and they don't even know why. Yet they're not screaming for them to be GCD-optimized, even though GCD offers more immediate and more noticeable performance improvements.

People in certain fields, and IT is one of them, become familiar very quickly with the difference between "need" and "want", and you don't fool us when you pretend that you "need" something, when you actually don't.

I suppose it does mean that Apple's marketing machine is working, though.

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Thursday, September 17 2009 @ 09:55 PM PDT

Still not 64-bit! - Umpyman

C'mon, really? 64 bit for a tiny VOIP program? This isn't Photoshop rendering...I'm sure 4 bit would work just fine...

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Thursday, September 17 2009 @ 11:57 AM PDT

Still not 64-bit! - jeffsters1

Reminds me when I was working the booth at MacWorld, I think Boston, in 1993 or 4? Anyway, it was System 7.5 and AppleScript was new. This guy walked up and was all "Do you support the AppleScript app dictionary"? and I looked at him and said, "sure, most of it, which commands are most important to you"? I kinda looked at me like a deer in headlights and shrugged it off walking away.

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Thursday, September 17 2009 @ 05:22 PM PDT

Applescript comment - friedchikkin

lol

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Thursday, September 17 2009 @ 09:38 PM PDT