Macbook Pro compatibility with Creative Suite 2?

I was wondering if any of you Macbook Pro users are running Adobe's software from CS2, specifically Photoshop and Illustrator? What are your experiences with it?
I'm thinking of getting the 15" 2.16 Ghz Macbook Pro. I RECENTLY bought Adobe Suite CS2 for my iMac G5. Not sure what I should do. I think it would be very expensive to have to buy the new Creative Suite that will guarantee to work on the Intel Macs. So I was wondering if anyone is running the software alright on the current Macbook Pros

I find the creative suite to be painfully slow on my MBP (17" C2D 2.33Ghz, 2GB RAM). Of course it does depend how heavy you are using it. But basically I cannot use photoshop or AE under mac OSX, it drives me nuts. FOr light projects I just switch to parallels, they usually work smoother running under parallels with only 1GB RAM allocated to windows. ANd for serious stuff I switch to bootcamp so they get the full 2GB... cant wait for CS3!

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