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Stop freaking out about Cocoa Finder and apps in Snow Leopard

Attention everyone who is excited about the new Finder in Snow Leopard; it isn’t new, it will look pretty much the same, and you really won’t notice a difference. John Gruber put it best on Daring Fireball: Cocoa is just an API. It is not some sort of magic technology where you just sprinkle a more »

64-bit Boot Camp support on Mac Pros; Vista Home virtualization allowed

Two important Boot Camp-related announcements were made this week, one by Microsoft and one by Apple. Firstly, it was reported Monday that Apple was including 64 Bit Vista support in it’s Mac Pro editions of Mac OS X. It quietly introduced this, with no mention of it other than this snippet from the installation instructions:

Important: You must use a single full-install Windows installation disc (Service Pack 2 is required for Windows XP installations). Do not use an upgrade version of Windows and do not install an earlier version of Windows XP and attempt to update it later to SP2 or later. Use only 32-bit versions of Windows. If you have a Mac Pro introduced in late 2007 or later, you can use a 64-bit version of Windows Vista.