Re: OT: PhotoShop and memory recognition on a Mac

2011-03-19 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-03-19 12:41 AM, David Mann wrote: On Mar 19, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: And this might be a great time to do it as Adobe is having a fire sale right now. Do you have a pointer to somewhere I can see/buy, assuming the sale applies to my region? I've been putting off an

Re: OT: PhotoShop and memory recognition on a Mac

2011-03-19 Thread steve harley
On 2011-03-19 09:31 , Bruce Walker wrote: Looks like that sale is over, sorry. still seems to load the page at $299 for me via this link:

OT: PhotoShop and memory recognition on a Mac

2011-03-18 Thread Paul Stenquist
I upgraded the memory on my iMac 27 to 12 gigs. I did it mainly to get more memory for PhotoShop for things like noise reduction, which can be poky, due (I think) to scratch disk involvement. The computer reports 12 meg of memory and says its okay, but PhotoShop still sees only 4 megs -- what I

Re: OT: PhotoShop and memory recognition on a Mac

2011-03-18 Thread Tim Bray
Is it possible you have a 32-bit rather than 64-bit installation? The 4G limit would be an unsurprising system (2**32 == 4G) -T On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: I upgraded the memory on my iMac 27 to 12 gigs. I did it mainly to get more memory

Re: OT: PhotoShop and memory recognition on a Mac

2011-03-18 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-03-18 3:27 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: I upgraded the memory on my iMac 27 to 12 gigs. I did it mainly to get more memory for PhotoShop for things like noise reduction, which can be poky, due (I think) to scratch disk involvement. The computer reports 12 meg of memory and says its okay,

Re: OT: PhotoShop and memory recognition on a Mac

2011-03-18 Thread Mat Maessen
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: I upgraded the memory on my iMac 27 to 12 gigs. I did it mainly to get more memory for PhotoShop for things like noise reduction, which can be poky, due (I think) to scratch disk involvement. The computer reports

Re: OT: PhotoShop and memory recognition on a Mac

2011-03-18 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Mar 18, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: On 11-03-18 3:27 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: I upgraded the memory on my iMac 27 to 12 gigs. I did it mainly to get more memory for PhotoShop for things like noise reduction, which can be poky, due (I think) to scratch disk involvement. The

Re: OT: PhotoShop and memory recognition on a Mac

2011-03-18 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-03-18 4:02 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: On Mar 18, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: On 11-03-18 3:27 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: I upgraded the memory on my iMac 27 to 12 gigs. I did it mainly to get more memory for PhotoShop for things like noise reduction, which can be poky, due (I

Re: OT: PhotoShop and memory recognition on a Mac

2011-03-18 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
CS4 on Mac OS X is only 32-bit. CS5 is fully 64-bit. Also, if you're running more than 4G RAM and all your other applications are 64-bit compatible, you should set up the system to operate with the 64-bit kernel too. Information on this topic is available from Apple: Mac OS X v10.6: Macs that

Re: OT: PhotoShop and memory recognition on a Mac

2011-03-18 Thread Paul Stenquist
Thanks Godders. I still use an old version of Word, so I may have to hold off on the 64-bit kernel. But thanks for the info. Paul On Mar 18, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: CS4 on Mac OS X is only 32-bit. CS5 is fully 64-bit. Also, if you're running more than 4G RAM and all your

Re: OT: PhotoShop and memory recognition on a Mac

2011-03-18 Thread David Mann
On Mar 19, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: And this might be a great time to do it as Adobe is having a fire sale right now. Do you have a pointer to somewhere I can see/buy, assuming the sale applies to my region? I've been putting off an upgrade for far too long and I don't see