Adobe Creative Suite Cloud on a MacBook Pro

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Adobe Creative Suite Cloud on a MacBook Pro

I need to upgrade my ancient Adobe Creative Suite 3 and just learned that Adobe is now offering just one upgrade option - Creative Suite Cloud. I don't have much choice but upgrade, but before I take the plunge, I'd like to find out what I'm getting in to.

I found an unanswered thread on an Adobe forum where someone on a Mac complained about CS Cloud taking up far too much space on his hard drive. He also said something about having to move his websites into a different folder for some reason.

Anyway, I'd love to hear from others who are using Creative Suite Cloud on a Mac, especially if you upgraded from CS3. Do you have any tips to share?

I should add that I'm using MAMP to power my sites.

Thanks!

Posted on Apr 6, 2013 7:23 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 6, 2013 7:31 PM in response to David Blomstrom

I upgraded first from CS3, then to CS6 Design and Web Premium and finally to Adobe Creative Cloud. If you've a 256GB drive or larger, I hardly find that the packages take up too much space and the only reason that I would imagine that someone would have to move a site is if they were not previously using Dreamweaver (and it's no big deal anyway).

I think that the subscription rates are terrific... go for it.

Clinton

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Answer 2

Apr 6, 2013 7:36 PM in response to clintonfrombirmingham

Yes, I have a 750 GB drive with 300 GB free space available. This offer just seems too good to be true; guess I was smart to wait. 😉

Thanks.

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Answer 3

Apr 6, 2013 7:39 PM in response to David Blomstrom

I'm running on a 512GB SSD, so you'll have no problem - are you getting the $30 a month 'deal' - I am because I had a qualifying product...

Clinton

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Answer 4

Apr 6, 2013 7:51 PM in response to clintonfrombirmingham

Yes. That's what blows me away.

$50 a month is probably reasonable, but I'm on a really tight budget. I also had to do a little math to figure out which was the better deal - spending $50 a month on a subscription or just buying each software program outright.

But $30 a month is a no brainer. That's about $1,500 over a period of four years, which is about the cost of three software programs, all of which will probably have to be upgraded more often than four years.

Anyway, it sounds like Adobe finally found the right sales scheme.

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Answer 5

Apr 6, 2013 7:55 PM in response to David Blomstrom

I'm also subscribing to Office 365 from Microsoft - I can install it on up to 5 computers, get a huge amount of SkyDrive space, etc., for only $99 a year! I think that subscriptions may be the wave of the future...

Clinton

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Answer 6

Apr 6, 2013 8:11 PM in response to clintonfrombirmingham

What kind of software/services do you get with that? I've pretty much divorced myself from Microsoft except for Excel; that's admittedly a good program. However, I need to check the latest Apple spreadsheet upgrade and see where it's at. I use my spreadsheets for organizing stuff more than mathematical functions, and Mac's alternative should be good enough by now. I initially stuck with Excel because it was a little better in the area of shading cells with various colors and patterns.

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Answer 7

Apr 6, 2013 8:17 PM in response to David Blomstrom

You get the whole Office Suite for Mac 2011 (and any upgrades - true upgrades that may come out), and I use Office 2013 under Windows (full suite as well). I do a lot of Acrobat/Word work and also use Adobe LiveCycle Designer on the Windows side.

Clinton

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Answer 8

Apr 6, 2013 8:18 PM in response to David Blomstrom

Are you talking about adobe creative cloud?

If you are, the Adobe Creative Cloud give you most of Adobe's tools (and all that most would need) to do anything. I will warn you about this though, is that it is a subscription, and you are basically renting it. that means you really do not own it.

About the hard disk space, all Adobe apps seem to take up at least a GB (and this does not matter if you get the master collection or the Creative Cloud). so ether way, it will take some space.

Also, if you want to try-before-you-buy, you can go to creative.adobe.com, and get a free account and try out all of he adobe apps available for creative cloud. The best part of it, your apps will be updated to CS7 (if or when it comes out) instead of buying the apps again in your subscriptions. if you need even more information, you can go to adobe's site to find out more (www.adobe.com)

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Answer 9

Apr 6, 2013 10:09 PM in response to David Blomstrom

One note - be prepared for a grueling registration process. I hit a dead end, so the Adobe specialist I chatted with asked me to try a different browser, so I tried Firefox, and that didn't work, either. He originally told me Safari didn't work well, and I struck out with Chrome and Firefox, so he asked me to try Internet Explorer - which is one of the problems that drove me to a Mac in the first place!

Finally, I registered with Safari, and it did work - I guess. However, I ran into more snags with e-mail, and I still haven't been able to register.

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Answer 10

Apr 6, 2013 10:21 PM in response to David Blomstrom

Hmm - it was quite simple for me... but then, I already had an Adobe ID... I just got my Cloud account and started downloading and installing using Adobe Application Manager. I DID have to deauthorize all of my CS6 Design & Web Premium apps in order to get the Cloud versions, but my 'transition' was painless!

Clinton

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Answer 11

Apr 6, 2013 10:28 PM in response to David Blomstrom

I have never had a problem with this. Of course, I never subscribed for creative cloud, I only have the free version to download edge tools and services.

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Answer 12

Jul 29, 2013 2:36 PM in response to David Blomstrom

Mr. Blomstrom wrote:

"But $30 a month is a no brainer. That's about $1,500 over a period of four years, which is about the cost of three software programs, all of which will probably have to be upgraded more often than four years."

The things I ponder on with that ..

1. You still don't own it

2. You still continue to pay for it, and you can last way more years on one bundle after paying one price. But with Cloud you continue to pay.

3. 1500 for 1 program wich is the cost of 3 software programs.. but it's just 1 program. Over 4 years , go back to 1 and 2.

4. If you don't use illustrator or acrobat and only need it for 1 program you still pay the same fee.

5. All the aricles I found off google after looking up how unhappy people are becoming with Adobe's cloud.

Not being combative. Just thinking about all that out of intimidation of the service.

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Answer 13

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Aug 21, 2013 10:29 AM in response to David Blomstrom

I've been using Creative Cloud for about 6 weeks now and here is some information you might find valuable. I started unexpectedly running low on disk space, investigated and found about 225 GB of space consumed by the cache files for Creative Cloud. Adobe support informed me that should be expected,

So, a word of caution when talking about how much space Creative Cloud consumes. The applications don't take that much space, but the cache files are HUGE!

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