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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be 64-Bit For Windows Only

Posted by kdawson on from the takes-time-to-make-a-cup-of-cocoa dept.

HighWizard notes that Adobe Systems has shared the first scrap of information about its next version of Photoshop, CS4, and it's a doozy: there will be a 64-bit version of the photo-editing software, but only for Windows Vista and not for Mac OS X. Ars explains the history of how this conundrum came to pass — blame Apple and/or Adobe as you will.

3 of 478 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Adobe Flash on PPC Linux? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because Flash and Photoshop are so interrelated?

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  2. Re:But AMD64 could be... by crusty_yet_benign · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The speedup comes from the fact that, in addition to increasing the bits, AMD also added a bunch of extra registers to the spec.

    Vendor-specific registers aren't the point (and I doubt whether Adobe spends much time on them, as "Optimized for Intel" as they've become). The extra address space speeds things up by preventing (much) swapping/paging.
  3. Re:bad summary - there will be a 32-bit version by Schnapple · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think you misunderstood the intent of the summary/headline. The issue is not that there won't be a 32-bit version for Windows or that there won't be a version for Macintosh (that would be suicide). The issue is that the 64-bit version of Photoshop, an app which could really use the extra muscle and RAM of a 64-bit machine, is going to be Windows-only because Apple hasn't gotten their shit together yet.

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