Thursday, April 3, 2008
Weighing in on the Adobe, Apple, Pshop CS4 64-bit
Thursday, April 3, 2008 
So Adobe's CS4 for Windows will be written to support that 64-bit OS. Mac OS X will not be able to take advantage of its 64-bit-ness because Adobe still has the source as Carbon for the OS.
While I use Photoshop every single day for something or other, I'm not entirely up in arms over this fact.
The rewrite of Photoshop for 64-bit OS X will be an insanely large task to complete. Perhaps they are already porting it, or have been in the process for a long time already. We simply don't know.
Would I like a 64-bit Photoshop for the Mac? Of course. Are the bulk of those using Photoshop using OS X? I'd guess yes. Is this in oversight by Adobe? I don't think so.
We've heard Photoshop CS5 should support 64-bit OS X. So we have to wait a bit until we all get it. A downer: No WAY I'd buy a XP/Vista version to run in BootCamp just to take advantage of 64-bit addressing. Too bloody expensive.
32-bit for me please, but when the pie is baked, I'd like the whole pie.
While I use Photoshop every single day for something or other, I'm not entirely up in arms over this fact.
- I am not a complete power user working on ginormous hires files
- I only have 6GB of RAM right now
The rewrite of Photoshop for 64-bit OS X will be an insanely large task to complete. Perhaps they are already porting it, or have been in the process for a long time already. We simply don't know.
Would I like a 64-bit Photoshop for the Mac? Of course. Are the bulk of those using Photoshop using OS X? I'd guess yes. Is this in oversight by Adobe? I don't think so.
We've heard Photoshop CS5 should support 64-bit OS X. So we have to wait a bit until we all get it. A downer: No WAY I'd buy a XP/Vista version to run in BootCamp just to take advantage of 64-bit addressing. Too bloody expensive.
32-bit for me please, but when the pie is baked, I'd like the whole pie.
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said...“I understand you're using a Mac platform and are comfortable with it, however, those of us that use Vista x64, which can properly run 100% native 64bit applications have been waiting for this sometime. Apple's 64bit offerings are not complete. x64 for the Windows platform has been chugging away for some time on XP, 2003, 2008, Vista etc. and is ready for mainstream apps. So, I'll take the x64 version now please, while everyone else needs to talk to Apple for theirs ;)”
