Macbook Pro and Adobe suite
I am involved in film production and new to Apple brand hardware. I have a Macbook Pro (2.4) with 4gb ram. I want to use Adobe Photoshop and After Effects CS3 for digital manipulation of my video content. Since the programs will run on Windows, and my Macbook is Intel powered, do I need software for the Mac or will Windows Adobe version install without using Parallel or Boot camp?
Thanks
Windows versions of software will only run under bootcamp or Parallels on a Mac. Adobe makes specific versions for each platform. Of course, you have to have the Windows OS installed as well. Figure in an additional $250 for it.
If you are doing heavy lifting with Photoshop and/or AE, I'd want to be running in OSX.
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Creative Suite 2 will work on Rosetta with the exception of one componet. Version Cue Workspace (Server) does not work under Rosetta. As of Jan 31 2006 this was the only known issue with using the suite on Intel Mac's.
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Creative Suite: Yes (with performance losses)
Photoshop Elements: Yes
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http://www.adobe.com/products/pdfs/intelmacsupport.pdf , which discusses Intel support, development, Rosetta compatibility, rough schedules, and more for Mac applications from Adobe and Macromedia.)
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I am soooooooooooooooo ******!!!!!!!!
I just purched the top of the line MacBook Pro and
learned that the Adobe Creative Suite products do
not work on this machine. I contacted Adobe and
they said they will not have an update until they
release the next version, which won't release until
(at the earlies) the end of this year. While
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign are not crucial aps
for me, I do use them for business regularly.
With this being the case, I ask the mac community
using these machines, should I return the computer,
buy a g4pb (my TI just literally fell apart) ?
Reading the board hear and various news articles,
there seems to be a few issues (whine - apps - etc).
I guess I should have looked into this more before
purchasing, but I trusted Apple to release products
that are ready for users.
This is the most expensive computer I have ever
puchased and I need it to do everything my TI PB
did.
Is the MacBook Pro worth the early adopter
hastle?
(thank god I haven't opened the box
yet!)
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-http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/sign-in-out-creative-cloud-desktop-app.html
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This is an open forum, not Adobe support... you need Adobe staff to help
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