Adobe CS5 & Mountain Lion

I am a Graphic Designer currently working on a pc but I am making the switch to MAC. My employer has offered to sell me a Adobe CS5 license at a discount (I currently use cs4 on my pc) but I'm not sure if it will work on the current version of OS X. I've googled and heard about it working for people and others have issues. I know Adobe cs5 only OFFICIALLY supports Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6.3; Mac OS X v10.6.3 but I really have no idea what that means.
What I want to know is If I buy a new mac (what's currently available 10/15/13), Will I be able to run Adobe Cs5?

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It works in OS X Mountain Lion, but there are some problems > http://roaringapps.com/app:4956
If you want more information, you can have a look at the Adobe website, where you will find more information about possible problems in Mountain Lion.
New computers come with OS X Mountain Lion, so this is the Mac OS X version you will have. Some users would recommend you to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a virtual machine, but you will be wasting hard disk space and performance while its virtual machine is running

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