Shawn K. wrote:
Hey, I dislike the current trend in software as much as anyone else.The problem is Henri, is that Adobe hasn' done much to CS from where I'm sitting to warrant it needing all this memory. its essentially the same program, and thats how its always been with photoshop, the new versions are just tiny steps forward. And yet its suddenly horribly bloated, doesnt make sense even considering the general trend of software. its just bad design. And for the money it costs it shouldnt be that badly designed.
-shawn
But the fact remains that I'm not at all surprised by this, because this is how it has been for a long time.
Although I agree that the jump up in memory usage is unusually large, especially considering how small the changes are.
There will probably come a patch at some point that fixes this overly aggressive memory allocation, as you say, considering the money it costs and the small amount of changes that has been made.
This reminds me of what the comments were about windows xp when it first came.
It barely ran on less than 192mb ram and the base install used up almost 3gb of space.
And hell, the changes weren't that big.
There was barely a single thing that was new, except for the odd gui changes here and there (not consindering that big blue-green gui hell, which I disable).
Today, when people have newer and faster machines, nobody gives a rats ass. "So what if it uses 100mb more ram when I have 1024mb."
Microsoft predicts that the next version of windows will have a _minimum requirement_ of something like a 2ghz cpu and 1gb of ram.
And I bet it will look and feel about the same as windows xp.
/Henri
