Adobe Responds to Intel-Only Soundbooth
An Adobe blog by John Nack addresses some recent concerns due to a recent release of the beta of their new SoundBooth application which is available for Intel Macs only.
Nack reassures customers that Adobe's existing applications will be released as Universal (both Intel and PowerPC) for now:
According to Nack, focusing on Intel-only for SoundBooth allowed Adobe to bring the application to market faster and with a richer feature set. That being said, it appears clear that there are no plans for providing PowerPC support in new applications such as Soundbooth:
Nack reassures customers that Adobe's existing applications will be released as Universal (both Intel and PowerPC) for now:
As regards Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, etc., these apps have been tuned for PowerPC for many versions, and therefore continuing that support is a very different matter than creating support from scratch. To put the freaking out to rest: the next versions of the CS and Studio apps are being built as Universal apps, and they'll run great on PPC. Someday Apple, Adobe, and everyone else will stop supporting PPC, as they did with 68k chips, OS 9, etc.--but not anytime soon.
According to Nack, focusing on Intel-only for SoundBooth allowed Adobe to bring the application to market faster and with a richer feature set. That being said, it appears clear that there are no plans for providing PowerPC support in new applications such as Soundbooth:
And again, in order to migrate, you have to start somewhere (namely, on the PPC). Soundbooth is a fresh start, not a migration.
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69 months ago
And so the PPC macs being obsolete begins. Glad I ditched mine and went intel.
69 months ago
They need to get the Creative suite UB out now...the "freaking out" is due to the long lead time on the CS UB.
69 months ago
And so the PPC macs being obsolete begins. Glad I ditched mine and went intel.
me too, even though i do like the PPC macs
69 months ago
So explain Lightroom being Universal?
Thank God it is Universal, even in it's beta version it's a fantastic app, and incredibly stable (far more stable than many final version apps, including Excel).
Thank God it is Universal, even in it's beta version it's a fantastic app, and incredibly stable (far more stable than many final version apps, including Excel).
69 months ago
So Adobe is helping Apple push the transition to Intel chips. This is a positive thing, no?
69 months ago
And so the PPC macs being obsolete begins.
True indeed!
It makes sense for new applications of this magnitude to be Intel only, I suppose. But what tools are they using to build this? If they can make Universal Binaries of their other applications, isn't it simply a recompile for PPC? Or is all about the optimizations for the hardware? :confused:
69 months ago
I know this kinda stuff was going to happen but not so quick. I know that intel is the future for macs but adobe making an intel only app right now seems ridiculous to me.
The G5 is still a viable chip, as is the G4. Now maybe this new app needs some grunt behind it but i don't see why a G5 could not run it.
What adobe should be focuding on right now is getting the CS programs out in UB and not all these new ones (soundbooth, lightroom, etc.). I thiink if they focus more on what needed to be done instead of these side things then the CS programs would be out by now.
The G5 is still a viable chip, as is the G4. Now maybe this new app needs some grunt behind it but i don't see why a G5 could not run it.
What adobe should be focuding on right now is getting the CS programs out in UB and not all these new ones (soundbooth, lightroom, etc.). I thiink if they focus more on what needed to be done instead of these side things then the CS programs would be out by now.
69 months ago
yea...last time I checked dual core and quad Core G5's were still beasts :confused: ...thanks Adobe?
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