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I have tried holding 6 and 4 and tried editing the boot.plist, neither will boot teh 64bit kernel.

I have a unibody MacBook, and I have the required "EFI64". Any ideas?

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I have tried holding 6 and 4 and tried editing the boot.plist, neither will boot teh 64bit kernel.

I have a unibody MacBook, and I have the required "EFI64". Any ideas?

I thought it was completely disabled for macbooks except for the top shelf MBP's?

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If so that's just stupid, why tout an OS as 64bit and disable it on machines that can run it just fine?

Apple is REALLY starting to **** me off lately.

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If so that's just stupid, why tout an OS as 64bit and disable it on machines that can run it just fine?

Apple is REALLY starting to **** me off lately.

+1000

It's easy money for Apple, you want 64bit? Open your wallet and upgrade! It's that easy.... Apple p*ss me off too.

Funny thing is, Win7 x64 works like a charm in bootcamp.

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Here's a compatibility list, just to show that the plastic MacBooks aren't compatible with the 64-bit kernel.

Like Decryptor said, it really doesn't make a difference. Benchmarks have been run, and there's no performance gain from running under a 64-bit kernel. My system is capable of running the 64-bit kernel and I don't even bother because there's no point. All I'd be doing is locking myself out of certain hardware and software that isn't compatible yet.

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