Adobe Universal Support FAQ

Thanks for nothing, Bruce.

Ouch, this gives it about another year before the Adobe goes universal and Intel ... it's cost effective, but leaves Photoshop behind on many new MacIntels this year.

I'll still stick with Photoshop, it's an excellent application. Hopefully Rosetta will do for now. =/

After Effects 7 just came out a few weeks ago, and it isn't Universal. I guess that means it will be awhile :( .

YAY!! CS3 next Tuesday!

*ducks from flying rocks*

I use Photoshop every day in my profession. I'm working on it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, around 50 weeks of the year. I will not upgrade my G5 until Photoshop is a universal binary. However, I still manage fine on my dual G5 2.0 Ghz even after almost 2 years so I can wait a while longer.

CS2 came out in May 2005. Since Adobe is pretty consistent with the 18 month upgrade cycle expect CS3 to come out around Nov 2006, or the end of this year. Considering the Pro machines won't go Intel until probably around WWDC in July waiting another half year really won't be that bad. Sure it's not the best news in the world, but I can hold off. The time it will take to get pro apps from other vendors than Apple out with universal binaries is going to hurt adoption of the new machines a bit though.

I use Photoshop every day in my profession. I'm working on it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, around 50 weeks of the year. I will not upgrade my G5 until Photoshop is a universal binary. However, I still manage fine on my dual G5 2.0 Ghz even after almost 2 years so I can wait a while longer.

CS2 came out in May 2005. Since Adobe is pretty consistent with the 18 month upgrade cycle expect CS3 to come out around Nov 2006, or the end of this year. Considering the Pro machines won't go Intel until probably around WWDC in July waiting another half year really won't be that bad. Sure it's not the best news in the world, but I can hold off. The time it will take to get pro apps from other vendors than Apple out with universal binaries is going to hurt adoption of the new machines a bit though.

I agree, by the time people who really use photosho and editing machines who want a new PowerMac, its going to be atleast another 7-8 months before the Intel version comes out and by the time they ship out, its been 10 months or so. I dont think this wait is gonna be too bad personally

Thanks for nothing, Bruce.

Really!

While I understand that they won't port the current versions to have universal binaries, I would think that their updates would be coming sooner.

:eek:
I guess apple will just have to come out with more appz cuz they seem to be the only ones quickly universalizing...:rolleyes: I can see it now, iPictureShop

Not wholly unexpected, but...

I need a vector drawing package to finally complete my switch from PC to Mac, and was in two minds whether or not I should go for Illustrator CS2. But at £499 including VAT (and yes my American friends, that's a whopping US$886), it wasn't a decision I was ever going to take lightly.

And now I know I'll have to fork out again for an upgrade when I enevitably switch to Macintel (when the platform is a little less bleeding-edge), the thought of 12 months Corel Draw 6 on Virtual PC is looking unusually attractive.

Adobe, Adobe, Adobe... I didn't like you before and I sure hate you now.

Regards
Superleccy

PS: Please excuse spelling, it's late

Ouch, this gives it about another year before the Adobe goes universal and Intel ... it's cost effective, but leaves Photoshop behind on many new MacIntels this year.

I'll still stick with Photoshop, it's an excellent application. Hopefully Rosetta will do for now. =/

Well, it might be until end of year until the first Powermac replacements come out anyway.

Wouldn't most Photoshop professionals already be using G5 Powermacs? Just wondering.