New 2009 Macbook - Can it run Snow Leopard 64 bit?

Just bought the new unibody white Macbook. I intend to run VMWare Fusion 3 and found some online suggestions to run it in Snow Leopard 64 bit. Will this new macbook support to boot Snow Leopard 64 bit as default?
Thanks.

ecvoyager wrote:
Pancenter,
I tried my macbook, I cannot boot to 64-bit. I tried boot with "4" and
6" pressed and even modified the com.apple.Boot.plist file as said in http://macperformanceguide.com/SnowLeopard-64bit.html
neither works. So the result on Late 2009 MacBook is same same as Compactc9 in his early 2009 model.
May be Apple may have lock the OS to 32-bit on Macbook ?
Reinstalling will not help.
It looks like Apple limits the Macbooks to 32-bit even though some are apparently capable of loading the 64-bit kernel. Probably another way to differentiate between the Macbook & Macbook Pro which as I understand it, will boot into the 64-bit kernel.
I think the best you can hope for is an EFI firmware update.
pancenter-

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