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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. Re:64 bit is no panacea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    you should inform college graduates then. we hire them all the time, full time, interns you name it. among the list of many skills like, word, excel, powerpoint, googling effectively, etc...photoshop is in there too.

    you don't know photoshop, you're not getting hired. period.

    we have a bank of macs, and we have several little tests that we've setup.

    adobe would LIKE everyone to believe that their application is the EXPENSIVE HEAVY DUTY PAINT APP.

    I'd say it's a paint app that remains expensive and hasn't added anything extraordinary to the feature lineup in 10 years.

    We chose adobe photoshop in 1993, instead of a used Pixar Image Computer. Back then this stuff was ground breaking. We had a quadra 950 with 64 megs of memory (the memory alone was $5000). The license for photoshop was $500.

    18 years later, computing power is cheap.

    and Adobe has been playing safety defense for 10 years. The signs are all there. Buying up all sorts of smaller companies or competitors. Innovation is dead. Lot's of top down decisions. Microsoft, Autodesk, and Adobe...are all just the big fat slugs of their domain. They need to be taken out and shot.