Is my mac 64 bit?

Hi guys!
Ive got an Intel Core Duo 2GHz macbook. Is this 64 bit or 32 bit?
Anybody watched the Keynote! How fantastic are some of the new features! I cant wait!
I love my macbook and Tiger is the best operating system! Much better than vista! I should think Leopard with make it even better! Microsoft will be catching up for years to come!
Thanks for your help guys!
Dave

Core Duo is a 32-bit processor. The Core 2 Duos are 64-bit.
Fortunately you won't be missing much since there are few 64-bit applications available. I wouldn't expect to see a big rush to convert existing apps to 64-bit unless doing so would make for major speed improvements.

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I am having the most frustrating problem with SMTP outgoing email account. I use GoDaddy's Webmail (smtp.secureserver.net) and I receive all my emails through Apple Mail but I cannot send any. I haven't been able to for about two weeks now, aside from 3 or 4 fleeting windows of time when I could. Almost all of the time I try to send my emails, an error message says my outgoing account is offline. I've been on the phone with GoDaddy's tech support three times this week and did everything we could think of, which include these steps:
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There are no guarantees, but following this procedure when installing updates and upgrades on your Mac, or even re-installing them, will go a long way towards avoiding unpleasant after effects and ‘post-update stress disorder’.
It is also worth noting that it is an extreme rarity for updates to cause upsets to your system, as they have all been extensively beta-tested, but they may well reveal pre-existing ones, particularly those of which you may have been unaware. If you are actually aware of any glitches, make sure they are fixed before proceeding further.
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Turn off sleep mode for both screen and hard disk.
Disconnect all peripherals except your keyboard and mouse.
1. Repair Permissions (in Disk Utility)
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At least you can now be reasonably certain that your system does not contain any obvious faults that might cause an update/upgrade to fail.
3. Download the correct version of the COMBO update from the Apple download site. If your car runs on gasoline you would not want to fill the tank with diesel, so don’t try to install the PPC updater on an Intel Mac!
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I have not seen this error myself.
You seemed to have covered most of what any of the regular Posters would have suggested.
There are circumstances where one iChat Screen Name will have issues where another one will not.
AIM periodically clear out what they consider to be Unused Screen Names and release them back for re-registration.
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In the past AIM did this in Early December (pre Christmas) and at 4 monthly intervals after that.
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Have you tried backing up your data and then completely reformatting the drive? If there is significant corruption, this may be the best way to eradicate it.
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Can I run Tiger on a circa 2000 G4 with a 450 (I think) processor, 1GB ram and a 30GB drive. I was planning on buying Tiger from the Apple Shop with the intention of running it on the G4. Will it run? Will it be usable?
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It's a small world, I work in Parkstone just off Ashley Road!
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http://www.macheaven.co.uk
http://www.macupgrades.co.uk
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I've tried starting it again but it just starts from the start again. And I've checked if it had finished but it still says I am on 10.5.7 on the 'about this mac' bit. Any Help would be greatly appreciated.
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It is!?
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Install a Boot Camp partition without access to OSX files.

I Want to use a boot camp partition so that windows can use all my ram (windows 10 is really slow running alongside Yosemite in virtualbox). Is there software that I can install or something special I can do to install windows in a way that it won't be able to access the files on the Mac side? I don't want the security risks of windows getting through to the Mac bit. So, is there something that can out up a barrier between the two?

Webmaster4o wrote:
Is there software that I can install or something special I can do to install windows in a way that it won't be able to access the files on the Mac side? I don't want the security risks of windows getting through to the Mac bit. So, is there something that can out up a barrier between the two?
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You have two choices,
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2. Convert your HFS+ volumes to CoreStorage. See the help about diskutil cs convert. Please also see https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man8/diskutil.8.html
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