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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.

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  1. Adobe Flash on PPC Linux? by BladeMelbourne · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess there's no hope now...

    1. Re:Adobe Flash on PPC Linux? by Xtravar · · Score: 4, Funny

      Aw cmon, porting isn't that hard! You just run "replace all" a few thousand times and then fix compile errors until it runs!

      Then you hand it to your QAers. "Good luck, fuckers!"

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  2. blame Apple and/or Adobe? by G3ckoG33k · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, but I will blame Microsoft.

    It may be a knee-jerk reaction, but still. ;)

  3. You must be new here! by CaymanIslandCarpedie · · Score: 2, Funny

    blame Apple and/or Adobe as you will

    You must be new here, I don't even need to read the article to know MS and thier monoply is to blame for this :-)

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  4. Blame Apple? by DragonHawk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Blame Apple? I didn't think we could do that, here.

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  5. hey by Neuropol · · Score: 3, Funny

    who cares.

    GIMP runs well on macs with xcode & developer tools installed.

  6. Re:The blame falls solely on Apple by elrous0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think they made the wrong decision

    32 bits should be enough for anybody.

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  7. Re:I vote Apple by mini+me · · Score: 2, Funny

    Developers are just plain LAZY

    Of course. That's why were are developers. When job X needs to be done, the average person will just jump in and get it done. Where as we developers, being lazy, would rather tell the computer to do the job instead. Had we not been lazy, we would have just done the job manually like the average person, and the software would have never been written.
  8. Re:64 bit is no panacea by BlackSnake112 · · Score: 2, Funny

    If their are slugs, just use salt. It is cheaper, easier, and safer then bullets....

  9. 32 more bits to suck at by billcopc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps I'm too cynical, but I don't think Adobe should even try to write 64-bit apps when they can barely manage to make a 32-bit app marginally stable.

    CS3 was a big improvement over CS2 in terms of speed and reliability, but that's like saying light poop tastes better than dark poop. It's still crap.

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  10. Re:64 bit is no panacea by adelgado · · Score: 2, Funny

    2008 - 1993 != 18
    2008 - 1993 = 15

    Maybe you are using MS Excel?