Road to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: 64-Bits. By Prince McLean Next year's 10.6 reference release of Mac OS X promises to deliver technology updates throughout the system without focusing on the customer-facing marketing features that typically sell a new operating system. Here's a look at what those behind-the-scenes enhancements will mean to you, starting with new 64-bit support.The move toward 64-bit computing is often generalized behind the assumption that "more bits must be better," but that's not always true. In some cases, expanding support for more bits of memory addressing only results in requiring more RAM and computing overhead to do the same thing. However, Apple's progressive expansion of 64-bit support in Snow Leopard will bring performance enhancements across the board for users of new 64-bit Intel Macs.
Here's a look at why, along with how it is that every version of Mac OS X since Tiger has advertised "64-bit support" as a key feature. The march toward 64-bit More bits here and there. Remote Control: Add More Functionality to Leopard's Screen Sharing. Color Management On Vista. I noticed the other day that in the Vista control panel there is a Color Management icon. So I started reading around and found information on Wikipedia about Vista's color management: "A more open-concept, platform-independent view of color management is the use of an ICC-compatible color management system.
The International Color Consortium (ICC) is an industry consortium which has defined an open standard for a Color Matching Module (CMM) at the OS level, and color profiles (ICC profiles) for the devices and working space. Beginning with Windows Vista, color management in Windows will be handled at the OS level through an ICC V4-compatible color management standard and API known as Windows Color System. Apple's Mac OS X and the classic Mac OS have long been capable of such color management which is called ColorSync. " I'm at a conflict here. Color management under all previous versions of Windows was a crap shoot and not consistent between computers. Human Interface Guidelines. The benefits of upgrading from Vista to XP.