Photoshop sheds 32-bit husk
Advantage: Windows
By Paul Taylor: Thursday, 03 April 2008, 5:18 PM
FOR ALL ITS professional pedigree, Photoshop hasn’t overcome one of its main limitations: the 32-bit RAM limit. Current Photoshop (and any 32-bit applications in general) can only address 4GB of RAM in Windows (and it doesn’t matter if you’ve got 64-bit Vista/XP), and amazingly, a lowly 2GB in OS X.
Yes. OS X limits RAM use on a single application to 2GB.
Pixel-picking on hi-res images can become quite slow when you’re working gigapixel art and run out of physical RAM, and then Photoshop automatically starts pumping out data to the hard-drive virtual memory.
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