Adobe's latest upgrade offers support for massive amounts of memory, but not on Mac OS X.

For graphic design professionals it's that time again. Adobe is readying a new version of its Creative Suite, the software bundle that includes Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and other applications for print and Web design. Only this time there's a twist: The new version of Photoshop will support 64-bit memory addressing for the first time --but only if you're running Windows.

Simply put, more bits means you can access more memory, which means you can work with bigger files. By taking advantage of 64-bit CPUs, Adobe is making it possible for designers and photo manipulators to work with really, really big images at high resolutions. Think posters, advertising displays, or even billboards.

So why not on Macs? As it turns out, Photoshop for Mac OS is written using older APIs that don't allow access to all the latest Mac OS X features. To bring the software up to speed will require a total rewrite, a time-consuming process that could leave Mac users in the cold for some time.

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News source: washingtonpost.com

lol

I get sick of hearing Apple fans claim that it is somehow better for graphics design. This move will make Vista x64 clearly the best platform for graphics design!

Hmm, that's definitely an interesting twist Chug!

Hmm very interesting. I can't wait for it lol.

I'll 2nd That!



Translated means they have to toss the current code out and do a complete rewrite for Linux using the OSX Desktop...

Not that MacOS is based on Linux, but I won't say anything against your statement as I'm no fan of Apple myself.

Either way, it's nice to see 64-bit apps. If no performance advantages, the least we get is a good feeling

A major app going x64, can only be good news. Nice one Adobe.

Actually, the whole reason for going to 64-bit is because of performance advantages.

Taken from an Adobe blog:



http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/04/photoshop_lr_64.html


Within the next couple of years we are really going to see 64-bit take over, and there will be two things driving that:

• Major apps such as Photoshop going to 64-bit
• New computers reaching and exceeding 4GB of memory

HP already offers the 64-bit version of Vista Home Premium and Ultimate on many of their computers intended for home users.

I wish this sort of thing would have happened back the XP days. 64bit XP never got anywhere! Really I think MS should have gone 64bit only with Vista - if not XP. I mean, who is selling new PCs with 32bit CPUs?
I guess MS didn't want an OS without any software though.

Really, even back when I was using XP x64, I saw it would never become popular because Vista would soon be out. I wish they would have gone completely 64-bit with Vista also, but if they had, then I guarantee there would be much more Vista complaining. The reason is, people wouldn't be able to run obsolete 16-bit apps or some obsolete hardware devices.

@ Chuggie,

Performance gains indeed. But that's for professional one-zillion-terabyte files. I guess normal users will show some advantages though!
I can't wait :3

I've got to wonder how many 16 bit apps and how much old hardware people are using on their dual/quad core 2/4gb Vista machines though...

Many in vertical markets that have specialty software for that market. These applications are usually rushed to market, insanely expensive, and very poorly written in what ever RAD environment was popular at the time.

This leaves many companies with a platform dependent anchor that they can't affort to upgrade away from. e.g. Why do you thing virtualization is so popular?

I Agree, i see that everywhere, many places stucked with a piece of software tailored for them and they don't have support for it and they cannot live without it.