Sorry for the delay, just getting to post-thxgiving day stuff now.
Scott Ehrlich wrote:
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Nathan Faust wrote:
Scott,
Have you looked into Windows XP x86-64? If you need to stay in the
Windows world, that would be the way to go.
I'm looking at everything. According to the Adobe user forums, though,
Illustrator, Acrobat, and Photoshop don't seem to play well in the
64-bit worlds. I have a query into Adobe's support for an answer.
Anyone know? I have Illustrator CS3 and Photoshop CS3 and Acrobat 8.
Thanks.
Scott
I've used Adobe CS3 Design Premium, which includes Illustrator, Acrobat
and Photoshop on Vista-64, and the software was functional but 'ugly'.
Windows didn't look right, things didn't refresh. Of all the 32-bit
software out there, I've found Adobe apps to work the least.
Alternatively, you can get the 32-bit version of Windows Server 2003
Enterprise R2, which supports 32GB of ram. There are instructions
online that will let you get a more desktop experience, such as enabling
audio and visual features of XP, but I don't have a link just now.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/evaluate/features/compare.mspx
Unless other hardware in your environment is not Vista-compatible, I
would try Vista-64 first and see if the Adobe capabilities are good
enough. Failing that, Windows Server Enterprise would be your best bet.
Nathan.
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Nathan Faust
Systems Administrator :: Merchant Warehouse
www.MerchantWarehouse.com
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Subject: [BBLISA] What to do with a RAM-heavy desktop?
So I have a 32 GB, dual quad-core processor desktop to
configure. It
seems like likely I'd install 32-bit Windows XP on it, with
respect to the user needing Adobe Acrobat, Illustrator, and
Photoshop, along with Matlab (which we have Linux versions
of) and Mathematica (which we can get Linux versions of, too).
But with 32-bit Win XP with SP2, we waste 28 GB, as it can
only use 4 GB.
The user is equally Unix-capable, and I could easily install
64-bit CentOS, but how could I enable them to fully take
advantage of the Adobe products on the system natively (i.e
w/o using a VM)?
Crossover Office does NOT show the Adobe products as
supported apps in their tested list.
What to do...
Insights welcome.
Thanks.
Scott
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