Are there any other words in the English dictionary that you don't understand besides the word "include"? It does not mean, as you seem to imagine, that the list provided is full and definitive.
OSX 10.5 makes proper use of the dual core CPU. It also makes proper use of the quad core + hyperthreading CPU and of the eight core + hyperthreading CPU. Indeed, the announcement says nothing about "being able to make proper use of the dual core CPU" and you seem to be clueless about the actual configuration of current Macs (no surprise there).
It's not "theoretical", the OS will address 16TB of RAM, end of. Windows
64 bit versions are limited to 128Gb of RAM. That's a bizarre interpretation of 64 bit addressing.Untrue, XP64 does not have 32bit support. Nor does Vista64. Indeed any
64bit version of Windows has the wonderful feature that they only support hardware with 64 bit drivers, and 32 bit software installers refuse to install the software.And XP64 is unsupported.
Leopard (10.5) is 64 bit and runs smoothly with the ability to address
4Tb of RAM and 16 exabytes of VM. Compare that with the crap 64 bit 'support' in Windows.Most Mac users were unaware that the OS has been upgraded to 64 bit because every feature of their previous OS and all of their applications and drivers continued to work. Compare that with the fuckup that is Windows 64.
Perhaps you can point to a version of Windows with these features?
Well they make glaringly obvious fuckups such as selling people the beta versions of Vista and XP 64 and the mugs who buy happily pay for the crap.
What I like about Windows Fanbois is that they are so glaringly ignorant that it doesn't take much effort to highlight the fact.