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Subject: Re: Which platform should I download for FreeBSD?
To: Jason Lindsey <jason.lindsey.1966@icloud.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
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From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
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Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 15:20:57 +0200
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Jason Lindsey via freebsd-arch wrote on 2018/09/09 01:53:
> I hope you help me,
> 
> I own a iMac 64, and do not know if I should download amd64 or arm64 platforms to support FreeBSD.  I would appreciate an answer to my question ASAP, in that I currently learning Solaris 10 and other versions of BSD software.  I would like to include FreeBSD in my studies.

I don't own any Apple products but AFAIK all modern Apple computers are 
using Intel x86 CPUs. If this is true for your model then you need to 
download amd64 version of FreeBSD system.

Miroslav Lachman