MacBook Pro/Adobe ?

Adobe software works fine with Intel Macs. Except for a couple that are now universal binaries the other Adobe products run through the Rosetta emulator. There is no timetable for when all of the Adobe products will be converted to universal binaries.



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Adobe is in the process of converting their Mac products to universal binaries but that process has been slow. To date only Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0, Adobe LightRoom, and Adobe SoundBooth are available as universal binaries. Creative Suite is apparently heavily under development and may be released before summer (nothing official, however.)

The other Adobe products run in the Rosetta emulator. They will run slower than on an equivalently clocked PPC Mac. Estimated slowdown between 20 and 30 percent. If you check out www.barefeats.com I think they've done some comparison benchmarks.

Certainly were you to purchase the Adobe software you would be able to update to the universal binaries as they are released.

Because there's no way to know the time frame for Adobe's release of universal binaries of its Mac software line I couldn't advise you that all will be resolved in two months. Of course if you aren't in a rush there's no risk waiting two months to see what happens before making your decision.



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Be aware that Illustrator may or may not work. My wife and I have two MacBook Pros, hers runs Illustrator, mine dies when launching. Both systems are 10.4.8 though after the initial trouble with Illustrator I completly wiped my system are did a fresh install of OSX and all the available patches. No joy, mine still will not launch Illustrator. Check out the forums there are others with similiar experiences. Runs great on my wifes MacBook Pro 😟

To date only Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0, Adobe LightRoom, and Adobe SoundBooth are available as universal binaries. Creative Suite is apparently heavily under development and may be released before summer (nothing official, however.)

This is incorrect Photoshop CS3 is available at beta and Acrobat 8.0 ( http://www.adobe.com/education/products/acrobatpro.html) both run natively on intel Mac.

While there are some small issues with Adobe products you'll find that most users of Adobe products on Intel-based systems, such as the MacBook Pro, have few, if any, issues.

However, for most the biggest issues are RAM usage and performance. As Adobe have yet to update their Creative Suite products to Universal Binaries performance is really no better than that of PowerPC systems. Yes Acrobat is available as a Universal Binary. And yes, Photoshop CS3 has a beta out although it's still just that, a beta (though it runs extremely well for me).

If you're under no pressure to buy you might want to consider simply waiting until Adobe CS3 is released which is hopefully soon. Otherwise, many do succssfully run CS2 on their MBPs although 2GB (better 3GB) RAM is highly recommended.

I'm having the same dilemna. I recently bought a MacBook Pro for the sole purpose of buying & installing Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2. Then after I bought it I found out about CS3, I don't know whether to wait until that comes out or if I buy CS2 and hope I can upgrade and have the programs run smoothly.

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I'm running Adobe CS 2 off of a "1st Gen" MacBook Pro (1.83gHz CD, 512MB), and I consider the performace to be absolutely horrendous. Perhaps it's the fact that I only have 512MB of RAM and it has to run under Rosetta, but I've used CS 2 on far less advanced machines to much better results.

Just my two cents,
Mike

running photoshop under rosetta with 512mb ram??? - i will not comment this, as tempting as it is...

i run ps on a 1,83ghz mbp with 2gb ram and of course it is still a bit slow but so far i'm satisfied because i expected this to be way worse. it's not like you can just do simple tasks on very small images...

I installed Illustrator on mine but had to remove it as it was so slow.