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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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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