Even though you and I share the 64 bit EFI in our MacBooks, Apple
purposely disabled our ability to boot into 64 bit mode. Not sure why
that is, but it's a fact. The upside is that booting into 64 bit mode really
only benefits you if you've like 32GB of RAM installed, which isn't likely to
happen anytime soon for our notebooks. Any 64 bit savvy application will
run as a 64 bit application on our MacBooks though, without having the
kernel running 64 bit. The point is, we really don't need to be running a
64 bit kernel and we have all the advantages of running 64 bit
applications. Hope that's helpful!
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