Java SE 6 For Mac OS X 132
wchatam writes "After a long delay, Apple has finally released a version of Java 6 for OS X. 64-bit Intel Macs are starting to see this pushed out via Software Update, but there has not been an announcement for when 32-bit Intel and PowerPC Mac users will get their versions."
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I don't know of anyone beyond the most clueless of idiots who think that Macs don't crash. Of course they can crash, every computer has a chance to crash. The thing is that Macs tend to crash less often than certain other computer platforms because Mac OS X and Apple hardware are designed to integrate tightly and there are less variables in their construction. Apple is also not immune to producing the occasional lemon but in experience they tend to build solid machines that have very few problems.
Mac OS X is VERY tolerant of situations where you are running low on RAM, once it has enough RAM to run itself. Generally once you are above about 512 MB of RAM you have a decent amount to run Mac OS X. Yes, it will run better with more RAM than that but for the casual user anything from 512 MB to 1 GB is pretty decent.
I don't know if you understand how modern operating systems work but generally they will load TONS into memory, even if they don't really need it. Just because Safari is "using" 800 MB of RAM doesn't mean that it's really using that much. A lot of that is caches, backing stores, associated libraries, and other support data that the operating system loads just in case it's needed. That sort of stuff can be overwritten in a jiffy if another application needs the memory. Not only that but a lot of that memory is likely to be libraries that are common to other running applications so 3 or 4 running applications might all be using the same 500 MB chunk of RAM.
I think you might want to read up [macosxhints.com] on memory management [apple.com] under Mac OS X [apple.com] before you make these sort of wild speculations...
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The MacBook, the MacBook Pro, the Mac Mini, and the iMac all shipped with a Core Duo model initially. The only model that didn't is the Mac Pro. Oh, and Xserve....
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