Feb 11
It appears that the Intel Core Duo chip already inside thousands of new Intel Macs may indeed be 64 bit. An article at Hexus claims that the Intel chips may are 64 bit. The huge question remains, why would Intel hide such a feature? Speculation has it that Windows has not been booted on new Intel Macs for this reason.
Note: This story has not been fully acredited and may be untrue.
February 12th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
[…] Following on from a previous article, we’ve found some more information which does indeed suggest these chips are 64-bit. Intel Sossaman was the codename for a low-voltage Xeon (Dual core 64-bit Intel server chip) and it was expected to be shipped under the Xeon brand, but it got cancelled. Now reports suggest that the cancelled Sossaman was later brought back and is now shipping as the Yonah chip, aka the chips in your MacBook and Intel iMac. This is one of the reasons why Windows won’t run on the Mactel models, you need to use the 64-bit version. Feed for this Entry Trackback Address […]
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:57 pm
I tried to install Ubuntu 64-bit on my core duo macbook, and this gave the error message that my CPU does not not support 64-bit and that I had to install a 32-bit version…