The Blob

It's like a mini-bomb in the world of mac users. John Nack has just posted on his blog a comment about the new CS4 version of photoshop. To resume : on windows this version is going to use full 64-bit support. And for windows ONLY.
Why ? Because they developed Photoshop in carbon instead of Cocoa. Apple decided to not support 64-bit in carbon. Adobe is trapped now and need to deploy all their big monster photoshop in Cocoa.

Why 64-bit is good for us ?
Because as designers, we use really often BIG images. We need ram as much as possible, and photoshop can use huge amount of ram in 64-bit computing (more than 4Gb). So in certain circumstances, adobe is going to run 10 times faster. Ok not all the time 10x, but... It's going to generate lot of frustration in mac users camp.
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