[Sarc]

Hi,

with the G5 being around for some time now, I was wondering about operating in a 64 bit platform, is there a real advantage to it ?

apart from highly specialized scientific applications (i.e. Virginia Tech), are there any apps. that will truly benefit from the G5's 64 bit capabilities ?
I understand that this depends a lot on the developers, but supposing that they do code for 64 bit processors, would for example a game boost it's performance ? or an average app. like Freehand ?

Thx.

(btw. I did a search on this, but the thread are rather long and with lots of useless fighting in them).

[Catfish_Man]

Basically it's just apps that deal with very large integers, and apps that use more than 4GB of ram. Everything else should slow down slightly in 64 bit mode.