<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 7, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Scott McCulloch wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Richard Gilmore wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Will the MacTel's Pentiums be 64bit?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Not according to this:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050607081920942">http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050607081920942</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Which does seem disappointing, or confusing, or something to me, given Apple's insistence that 64bit was an important step for OS X, one of the benefits of G5s, etc. I certainly bought the argument... so I'm not quite sure how to take this.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Scott</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Could you please quote or paraphrase what Macfixit says regarding this? The page you linked to is only available to Macfixit Pro subscribers. Macworld says they think Apple would probably not abandon the 64-bit architecture, and that Intel has made 64-bit chips (although not very successful ones as far as I know), and that Intel would probably make a 64-bit chip for Apple. Of course, this is completely based on conjecture, and there's no proof one way or the other that I know of. I'm curious as to how Macfixit came to the conclusion that Intel would not make a 64-bit chip for Apple. Are they just guessing. It seems like no one would know that information yet.</FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Adam</DIV></BODY></HTML>