Adobe PS on MacBook

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Adobe PS on MacBook

What is up with Adobe not offering a Universal Binary of CS2?

http://digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com/2006/01/20/universal-binary-not-until-c s3/

For anybody who has run Photoshop on a MacBook, please let us know how is it performing, what are your system specs?

Is this a sign of a widening rift between Apple and Adobe? First Apple crushes Premiere with Final Cut, now they are offering Aperture, which should have been an Adobe product if you ask me. What is going on? I thought it was supposed to be pretty easy to convert to universal binary. why wouldn't adobe do it and make a few bucks charging for "cross-grades"?

Posted on Mar 6, 2006 2:06 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 6, 2006 2:15 PM in response to erik graham

Adobe PS is a huge application, and it will not take a simple patch to make it Universal. Adobe announced that their next version of Creative Suite (CS3) will be universal. Basically the whole simple to make universal thing depends on the way the program as originally made, i.e. Carbon, Cocoa, etc.

As for the performance issues, I upgraded to a MBP (specs below) from a Powerbook 1.33 G4. It runs almost as fast as it did on my PowerBook. If you had the 2.0 or 2.16 maxed out with memory it would probably be as fast as most Powerbooks. As for comparing it to a PowerMac - well it doesn't compare, but for simple stuff, it is fine.

BTW - CS3 is supposed to be released by next spring, so if you do a lot of photo editing, a MBP probably is no the way to go.

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Answer 2

Mar 6, 2006 2:57 PM in response to erik graham

I believe that adobe did use codewarrior for the mac.
they now have to use xcode, so there's the code port -plus getting the universal binaries. there's alot of work to be done. it'll get there.

15" 1.67 PowerBook, 2GB Ram, 100GB drive Mac OS X (10.4.5) 30" Cinema, LaCie 500GB FW, Protools, FCP 5, Avid Xpress Pro

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Answer 3

Mar 6, 2006 3:37 PM in response to erik graham

CS2 as a whole works a lot better than you'd expect it to on a Macbook Pro. If you max out the RAM to 2 gig you can run it and it works just about as quickly as the last generation of G4 notebooks.

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erik graham Author

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Mar 15, 2006 7:49 AM in response to erik graham

Apple is rumored to have gotten involved and may be helping Adobe make the conversion to UB.

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sburst7

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Mar 15, 2006 8:08 AM in response to erik graham

I use PS daily, and have for years. CS2 is running on my MBP without any problems. I have the 2.0 with 2GB and the 100GB 5400. I perceive it to be faster under Rosetta than the PB 1.67. If you shoot in RAW and want an awesome program that is universal, download Adobe's Lightroom Beta2. It rocks!

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