Photoshop CS6 is not supported on this type of Mac (2012 MacBook Air)

Photoshop won’t launch on the latest MacBook Air 2012, OS 10.8.2, i7, 8GB. Installed the Adobe CS6 (Design/Web). All products work fine (although had to downgrade to Java6 to start Dreamweaver) but the PS icon is greyed out. When launching Photoshop CS6, I’m getting: You can’t open the application “Adobe Photoshop CS6” because it is not supported on this type of Mac”.

No idea what happend. I was installing the CS6 suite on a brand new MBAir. All software was fine, eg, DW, InDesign and so on. Only Photoshop failed. One strange thing was that the MBAir has Java 7 but when launching DW it asked me to install "newer" Java version (?). I did the SMC/PRAM reset. Then uninstalling and installing PS solved the issue.

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Geo, unfortunately, this is turning into a major problem although no one has figured out a solution. Keeping pressing Adobe support. I have a Mac but don't have this problem but you are not alone:
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No, I bought it brand new from Adobe. It says right on the back that it's for Mac OS X v10.6 or x10.7. I am running Mac OS X v10.7.4. Does this help? Or what other information would be helpful?
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How old is your Mac? if it is about 2006 or 2007, then it is considering to be painfully aging in days of Internet age.
That is the reason why I suggested - latest newest computer is highly recommended. Yes, I know it is expensive to invest. But the trade-off is that you get most out of more efficiency and faster workaround with fastest, new computers. I usually buy new laptop and Mac Pro every two years. My new current Mac Pro has 32 gb, a 12-core Intel processors. Loved it. Same with MacBook Pro 17 unibody - in about six months, I'll buy new MacBook Pro.. as far as I understand that Apple no longer offer 17" laptop. But that is ok.
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9/20/13 10:15 PM     iTunes                                                         11.1.0
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