Is there going to have Corel X4 in 64 Bits?
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 that was announced last week is a 32bit application. It has been tested fully on Windows XP and Windows Vista 64 bit. There has been no announcement regarding a 64-bit version of CorelDRAW.
Gérard
will be there a 64 bits version?
With CPUs being 64-bit for a while now (I think even the old Xeons were all 64-bit capeable for 3+ years now) and with RAM prices so low, I would like to see a 64-bit X5 in a couple years. I'd also like to see continuing optimization of any and all functions that can support multicores.
On the other hand, with the latest quadcore, I'm finding even still in a ram-limited 32-bit world, X3 is really fast :)
They must have said the same thing going from 16-bit to 32-bit... once they do it, within the next generation it will (I believe) mean a performance boost for everyone (if there isn't a performance advantage from going 64-bit, why has Intel designed their CPUs all 64-bit capeable now instead of leaving them at 32-bit?)
A real chicken or the egg problem with 4 things that need to come at the same time for the user: CPUs (which we've had for 3-4 years now) OS (XP 64-bit wasn't advertised very much, but there seems to be more adoption of Vista 64-bit where people are building powerful machines and want more than 4 GB of memory; maybe it will be the next OS though that really takes off...) Software (not really any yet; even the adobe apps, photoshop and indesign, are't 64-bit yet, are they?) and Drivers (again not available yet as you say for many RIPs, printers, etc.)
I imagine the driver people are saying the same thing -- why provide printer or scanner drivers until people are running it. And people can't run it until the drivers exist and the software exists. A tricky one, since there will have to be overlap between 32-bit and 64-bit versions since not everyone will be able to upgrade their OS at once, and yet I would guess, everyone will at some point in the future.
Since I don't have EFI Fiery drivers avaialble for 64-bit yet, I'm actually glad that Corel didn't spend the resources to do X4 as 64-bit.And it's pretty darn fast on my new CPU as-is.
But in two more years when I presume X5 will come out, I can't help but wonder if X5 shouldn't have a 64-bit version. Carrying around a camrea with 8 GB of memory now and who knows what then, and even now with a motherboard with 6 of 8 memory slots open, 64 GB capeable but only able to utilize 4 GB due to the 32-bit os limitation, will I still be happy in two years using only a fraction of the resources available?
I imagine two years from now I'll want to have a lot more things go from "fast" to "instant." Instead of a printer spool on disk to spool out a 500 MB print job it will go instantly to a ram drive. WIth 16 or 32 GB of memory, every corel file I'll work on in a day could be cached for not only quick but instant access for either opening or saving (with the file saved to disk in the background).
For this 32-bit system I just spent the big bucks for an 8-drive raid-10 system which works awesome (I can save a 2 GB corel file in 40 seconds now that used to take over 5 minutes on my previous system) but I think system RAM will be more versitile and less expensive to accomplish even faster responiveness two years down the road.
I have one box with Vista 64. XP 64 was a nightmare because it was even harder to find drivers for it.Vista 64 bit, not quite so bad. The driver problem is actually caused by Microsoft, as kernal mode drivers not only require code signing (which can't be done with a standard certificate), but they must also pass some pretty tough tests through MS Labs, which can take some time. This is not the case on 32 Bit Vista. If Microsoft had the same developer requirements on Vista 64 as they do on Vista 32 (which is secure enough in my opinion), I think you would see a wider adaptation of the OS and more apps written for it.