Adobe says 64-bit Photoshop doesn't matter

Jonny Evans
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September 24, 2008
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 Adobe continues to insist Mac users won’t miss 64-bit support in its newly-introduced Adobe Photshop CS4 products.

The reason it’s lacking is because Apple ditched a section of underlying OS X code that Adobe used for the creation of 64-bit support, meaning the developer would have had to invest significant resources re-building its app.

But Bruce Bowman, product manager of Adobe Premiere Pro, says Mac CS4 users won’t miss 64-bit - “much”.

Adobe says running in 64-bit mode resulted in an 8 to 12 per cent speed advantage when running CPU-intensive operations, but the OpenGL support within the application should compensate for that. While 64-bit support is in development, Bowman wouldn’t say when it might debut.


Comments (7)

Dan (not verified) | September 24, 2008 - 4:35am

Can some developers (not Adobe, just any OS X developers) tell us whether there was ever any serious expectation or belief that Apple was actually going to make a 64-bit version of long-in-the-tooth Carbon, when Cocoa was clearly the future direction of development on the OS, and Carbon was basically a backward-compatibility framework?

C'mon, Adobe has known this was coming since OS X 10.0.0 or even earlier. Yes, when you've got a huge codebase in Carbon, it takes a long time to port to Cocoa, but they should have had at least one dev working on this for the better part of a decade already. :)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 24, 2008 - 9:58am

I believe at WWDC 2006, Apple claimed Carbon would be made 64-bit. So yes, Adobe did have reasonable expectation. Remember, in MacOS X 10.0, Carbon was made for Adobe and MS. Apple didn't want to put Carbon in MacOS X at all.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 24, 2008 - 4:59am

I'll keep pirating their software. They won't miss my coin 'much'.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 24, 2008 - 5:07am

if you buy CS3 32bit, will it be useless on Snow Leopard 64bit?

Leonardo Damián (not verified) | September 24, 2008 - 6:35am

Snow Leopard is 32 AND 64 bit compatible.

So everything will work side by side on it.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 24, 2008 - 11:07am

fine, CS 4 doesn't matter. I won't be missing it "much" either.
I'll wait till CS5 and its full 64 bit support across the board. Heck, they'll probably have it ready by summer 2009.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 25, 2008 - 12:08am

Chill with the moping already.

Imagine waking up tomorrow with no Apple and no Adobe.

You'd be booting Vista, writing .docs and then quick exporting them to Expression web.

For me, some of the joy dies right there....