Snow Leopard 64 bits

MBM's icon

Hello to everybody:

I´ve read that Snow Leopard can works at 64 bits, and I have a MB Pro i5 (2,53 Ghz. and 4 Gb RAM), so:
- Can I do this? If so, how?
- Is better for Max/MSP or can it give me problems?

Thank you in advance and best regards.

Macciza's icon

Yes Snow Leopard is 64bit system mostly.
Max is not yet 64bit as far as I am aware

Tim Lloyd's icon

Max 5 works fine on Snow Leopard (I use it), as SL runs 32-bit and 64-bit apps interchangeably.

It won't increase your performance when using Max 5 though because as Maccazia said, Max is not 64-bit (yet). You're still limited to less than 4GB of RAM use.

MBM's icon

Ok, thanks to both of you, I´m also running Max 5 on SL, but I´ve read this:

And I was wondering if doing this would improve something. I´m newbie with Max and OSX, so I´m not sure if doing this would be dangerous or, opposite, if it would be better.

Thank you again and best regards.

Tim Lloyd's icon

No that won't make any difference to Max 5 performance. Booting into the 64-but kernel would probably be a bad idea, just in case some of the driver software you use isn't fully 64-bit compatible, because then it wouldn't work :p

MBM's icon

Ok, thank you very much :-)

Best regards.