“Although the Mac operating system remains a 32-bit OS, Apple said the machines are shipped with a new version designed to take advantage of some of the G5’s 64-bit processing abilities,” Ina Fried
reports for CNET. “In particular, version 10.2.7 of Mac OS X has math and vector libraries that are optimized for the 64-bit chip, as well as the ability to address more than 4 gigabytes of physical memory, breaking through a limitation of 32-bit chips.
“Application developers can recompile their programs to make further performance gains, Joswiak said. Adobe Systems’ Photoshop is among the programs being tweaked to gain an additional speed boost from the G5,” Fried reports.
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