Adobe's System / Hardware requirements

Question

As I have mentioned for years, and with many Adobe Products, they need to get "real" with regard to minimum requirements.
OK, so Adobe will sell a couple fewer units, BUT think about the units that they do sell, to the poor folk at the lower-end, who then find that PrPro will not edit, PS will not work, etc.
When I mention a 3x SATA HDD setup on the PrE forum, the users cite that the min. is stated as an 80GB EDIE, or similar. Yeah right. Like that will allow more than just the installation of the program. Import a 15 min. DV-AVI, and you are hosed! Adobe, which I love, needs to get real, and temper the Marketing-types here. They need to be made to listen to the engineers, and change these specs.
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Answer 1

Todd_Kopriva wrote:
Regarding the sentiment that we need to "get real" about the system requirements:
I think that that message is getting through. I'd even say that it got most of the way through for CS5, and you can see the evidence in many places (just not all) where system requirements are discussed.
Take for example this page, which gives different requirements for different levels of performance:
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/performance/
I may have broken that down differently myself, but I hope that you can see that it's a step in the right direction.
Hi Todd,
Please look at the following ad by Dell for its Precision workstations.
http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/workstations?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&~ck= mn&~tab=2&CID=28189&LID=1406433
The ad states:
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Collaborate, multitask, render and more – with a system ISV-certified (my bold) to run 90 applications including Autodesk®   Maya®  2011, Autodesk®  3ds Max®  and  Adobe®  CS5.
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The default configuraiton the above ad refers to the following computer.  "Event Videographer Offer"
It comes with 1 GB ram, 256MB ATI FireMV® 2260, 2MON, 2 DP w/ 1 DP to DVI Adapter, ONE 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s with NCQ and 8MB DataBurst  Cache™, etc.
Certainly it can be imporoved by "Customizing", but considering that Dell touts Adobe (and specifically Adobe CS5) as being a a system ISV-Certified partner, shouldn't Adobe require Dell to offer by a simple click of an icon, at least a minimum system that will actually run Adobe CS5 and Adobe Premiere CS5 (the above link came from a full page ad on the back cover of a Video magazine.)
Since CS5 has some very serious hardware requirements, I feel Adobe must be on the CUSTOMER's side when it comes to its partners using its Trademarked named products -- and not rely on the "good will" of the sales people who pick up the phone at its ISV-Certified hardware partners who may or may not have the knowledge (or desire) to ensure that the machine they sell will actually run Adobe CS5, and specifically Adobe Premere CS5.
Regards,
Rowby.
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