Why I NEED 80GB Memory in my Mac Pro: Photoshop CS6 Performance
A few days ago, I was working on a big photography comparison involving many 16-bit layers from 18/22 megapixel cameras, also scaled up even larger.
Here’s why I need that 80GB, and I would prefer 96GB— Photoshop CS6 was using a whopping 56GB of real memory! The only way to avoid very sluggish performance is to make sure that such big jobs stay in memory.