Everything is Gray » Snow Leopard http://everythingisgray.com James Barclay's blog about design, technology, and the web. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:55:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Check if your Mac is 64 bit http://everythingisgray.com/2009/10/08/check-if-your-mac-is-64-bit/ http://everythingisgray.com/2009/10/08/check-if-your-mac-is-64-bit/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:52:41 +0000 James Barclay http://everythingisgray.com/?p=149 Here’s an easy way to determine whether or not your Mac is 64 bit capable. Open Terminal.app, which is located in /Applications/Utilities and type in

sysctl hw |grep 64bit.

If your machine is 64 bit capable, the result will be

hw.cpu64bit_capable: 1

If your machine is not 64 bit capable, the result will be

hw.cpu64bit_capable: 0

Tip source: OSXDaily.com

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