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

[Patrick Paul]

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.
>> -------------------------------------------
>> Nathan Faust
>> Systems Administrator :: Merchant Warehouse
>> www.MerchantWarehouse.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----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
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________