64-Bit Intel Macs?

[maxvamp]

Folks,

Macnn is reporting the following:

Absoft Corporation announced today new Fortran compilers optimized for both Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors running Linux, along with plans to offer the new compilers for 32-bit and 64-bit Mac OS X using Intel processors. The new compilers will also be available in software development kits (SDKs) and bundles from Absoft for clusters, grids, and servers running Mac OS X, including the new Intel-Mac systems. The new Absoft Fortran compilers support the full Fortran 95 specifications, many Fortran 2003 extensions, and can generate both 64-bit and 32-bit executables. A 12-month subscription of "Express Fortran" starts at $300, "Express Plus Fortran" at $600, and "Standard Fortran" starts at $800 (special pricing for existing Absoft customers available through March 31). The 64-bit version for Mac OS X is available now, while the 32-bit version is expected in February.

I suspect, based on this bit o' news, that the 64-bit Mac will not be gone from the Power(Pro?)Mac lineup at any time and the transition may go from a 64-bit PPC to a 64-bit Intel.

Just my suspicions since Apple will not say anything about 64 bit on Intel...

Max.

 

[excalibur313]

Well the merom which comes out during the third quarter of this year by intel will be 64 bit and it seems very reasonable that apple will quickly start using them so they can brag that they have the first 64 bit laptop. I'd guess that they'd be out for back to school this year.

 

[jiggie2g]

Well the merom which comes out during the third quarter of this year by intel will be 64 bit and it seems very reasonable that apple will quickly start using them so they can brag that they have the first 64 bit laptop. I'd guess that they'd be out for back to school this year.

They can brag about being almost 2yrs late as AMD had Athlon 64 and Turion 64 CPU's in notebooks for some time.

 

[Mord]

naturally those laptops will be using more than 4GB ram right?......


thought not.