switchtoamac.com — Adobe has finally announced the release of the much anticipated Creative Suite 3. This new version is the first from Adobe to natively support Apples Intel based Macs. Bundles, packages and prices are detailed.
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youssifMar 27, 2007
someone acknowledge Paradox team to get ready !
mongrelMar 27, 2007
i.e., Quark XPress users. And echoing a previous comment I WAS a huge Adobe pirater at home for years, in my late teens and early 20s. Then during a stint in a manufacturing job I was able to put that to use in the absence of our freelance designer, and now I head a three-person national design team - so 1 pirated copy has come to bear 3 fully licensed copies and 4 years' worth of upgrades, not tomention multiple copies of Acrobat for other non-design users in the business.So do some real resarch before you insult wanna-be designers whose mommas don't have the dough for your overproiced software.
mongrelMar 27, 2007
A kid in a candy store, where the candy is coated in heroin which you can't afford but must have or you'll go apes**t.
superkendallMar 27, 2007
@Davidflow - it's not that slow. I run CS2 on my Intel Macbook Pro (not even the newer Core Duo Two Twin Turbo, or whatever it is) and it's fine, just as fast as my G5 1.8 DP Tower anyway...Most of the Intel macs around at the moment are fast enough to take out most of the speed drop from Rosetta. That said the improvement of CS3 on Intel will be very nice, if I can just figure out the right vector calculus to properly choose the right package for myself.
shanmacMar 28, 2007
Thank goodness they kept Dreamweaver.
mediaphileMar 28, 2007
Sorry to thread jack, but a little announcement for people in the San Francisco area: Adobe will be demoing Creative Suite 3 at the Apple store tomorrow (Wednesday 03/28) night from 6:30pm to 8pm. First place on the west coast for the public to see CS3.<a class="user" href="http://www.apple.com/retail/sanfrancisco">http://www.apple.com/retail/sanfrancisco</a>
r2proMar 28, 2007
@Davidflow I currently do not own any macs and have not since the early 90's original powerbooks. I'm currently using an 18 month old HP 15" 1.73 Pentium M w/1GB RAM as my main development tool. It is not aging well, has several highly annoying usability design flaws, and I am itching to replace it.@smhill The above is why I've waited for the Intel native version to switch to a mac laptop. Since Adobe makes you pay the full price -vs- the upgrade price when changing platforms, I did not want to shell out a couple thousand dollars for software and then turn around and pay another 3-4 hundred dollars just to have a package that does not need an emulator to run a program that I use everyday.I'm switching platforms due to the little things in the hardware that Apple designs. Backlit keyboard, trip proof power cable (an important feature for someone who destroyed a 1 month old laptop by tripping on the power cord), clever exhaust fan placement, and integrated web cam. As for OS X, there is no doubt that it is far more advanced than anything else on the market. But I really don't care about the OS as long as the platform has software to do everything I want then I am generally happy with it. Anything else is just gravy.
alystairMar 28, 2007
Amen, I was very worried that Fireworks would go away. It's a great tool for prototyping websites and doing quick edits without waiting 5 minutes for PS to load up ;)
nazcreativeMar 28, 2007
Sorry guys, I don't think Adobe has a lay away planned for the CS3 suite. Tell you what, I'll buy it for you and you can come work it off working for me.
hotdamnMar 28, 2007
how much was it before?
cnnguyen02Sep 20, 2007
I want to learn illustrator n photoshop I love it