[BBLISA] What to do with a RAM-heavy desktop?

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Nathan Faust wrote:

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> Scott,
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> 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

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> Nathan.
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> Nathan Faust
> Systems Administrator :: Merchant Warehouse
> www.MerchantWarehouse.com
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org
>> [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich
>> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 7:26 AM
>> To: bblisa at bblisa.org
>> 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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