Seeing that there is a good possibility Macs could become 64bit soon I thought It would be nice to have a discussion on 64 bit software. I didn't want to stick it in with the 64 bit Hardware ...
Because the 64-bit mode does such a good job running 32-bit applications, there's almost no downside if you have the hardware, the new Intel chips or AMD chips, there's no downside to running in ...
Ideally, the machine would come with 64-bit Windows Vista already installed by the manufacturer. Ideally, it would be a laptop powerful enough to run Visual Studio. There are two issues to think about ...