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Many photography editors rely on Photoshop, image editing software, to do their daily jobs. A future version of this piece of software may prove to be troublesome for people with computers with 64 Bit processors. Although Adobe does plan to release future versions of Photshop with support for 64 Bit processors, this will not be the first edition to do so.
This future version does have features that many users have been waiting for, however. For example, owners of Intel Macs will be able to run this application without using Rosetta (A PowerPC imitating application), but completely native, and much faster. This is one of the main reasons many Mac users will buy this software.
Although Macs do not currently support 64 Bit applications, and Windows XP, only has a very limited capability, both Mac OS X and Windows’ operating systems will soon be updated to support 64 Bit fully (Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Windows Vista), and at that point, Adobe will be behind.
Adobe: No 64-bit Photoshop CS3 [Via: CNET News]
One Response to “No 64 Bit PhotoShop CS3”
Bruce Anderson December 30, 2006
32 bit systems can address what, 4gb of memory? The MacBooks all have a cap of 2gb and the Pros 3gb. Gotta be honest. I’m not sure this is a real problem yet. So the only Mac users for whom that will be a problem is Mac Pro users with deep enough pockets to afford a Mac Pro with more than 4gb of that fancy RAM Apple’s using. Given that it’ll only be a problem for a comparatively small number of people I just can’t get excited about it. Let them focus on getting the UB out, then we can worry about adding 64 bittedness later.
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