Google| Subject | Re: Next Lightroomrequires 64bit |
| From | Mayayana |
| Date | 01/30/2015 14:38 (01/30/2015 08:38) |
| Message-ID | <mag1bu$akl$1@dont-email.me> |
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| Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
| Follows | Sandman |
| Followups | nospam (17m) > Mayayana |
| "In order to leverage the latest operating system features and technologies, | Lightroom 6 will require Mac OS X 10.8 or above, or a 64 bit version of Windows | 7, 8 or 8.1." | | Makes sense, but how many will be left with version 5? I wonder if there is any | data on this. How many here use a 32bit operating system? |
I do for most things. I'm running XP. I have a dual-CPU Win7-64 box, but I find Win7 tedious and overproduced, in addition to being spyware. I prefer XP because it mostly just does what I tell it to and gets out of the way. I've only used the Win7 box occassionally for large, memory-intensive operations.
If I were doing a lot with large RAW images the Win7 box might be worth the trouble, but not because of "the latest system features". That's just BS Adobe is using to justify dropping the work of 32-bit support. The case for 64-bit is all about RAM.
On the other hand, I don't and wouldn't use Adobe, so I'm not concerned.
01/30/2015-
