Did you know that there`s a quasi-hidden feature in Snow Leopard that will make your Macintosh run faster across the board at the expense of some backward compatibility? Or are you an Xserve or Mac OS X Server user that has to revert to the older kernel in order to use older software?
SixtyFourSwitcher is a preference pane that makes it easy for users to switch between booting using the 32-bit version of the Mac OS X kernel and the corresponding 64-bit version.
Why would anyone want to do this? Because the 64-bit kernel is considerably faster than the 32-bit kernel, with the downside being that it is not compatible with older kernel extensions, and software that relies on the old extensions.
SixtyFourSwitcher is designed to be a two-way (Intel 64 and Intel 32) universal binary.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· The Mac mini (4th generation, aka mid 2010 model) is now whitelisted, as are all future Mac minis.
· In response to the comments left by some users on MacUpdate, the preference pane description has been rewritten.
