“A version of Adobe Systems’ flagship Photoshop software that will run on Mac computers based on either the legacy PowerPC or new Intel platform will be available in the first half of next year, the company’s CEO said Friday,” Martyn Williams reports for IDG News Service. “‘We are working very hard on making our products Mactel (Mac Intel) compliant,’ Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen said at a Tokyo news conference. ‘When we ship the new product Acrobat 8 this fall it will be Mactel (Mac Intel) compliant. When we ship Photoshop and the Creative Suite products next spring they will also be Mactel compliant.'”
“Adobe has recently released several new products in Universal Binary form, and Chizen appeared on stage with Steve Jobs during Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference to back Apple’s switch to the Intel platform. ‘Many of our customers use Macintoshes and we believe that Mactel will provide for a greater performance and better experience and that will be good for Adobe’s customers which means it’s good for Adobe,’ Chizen said in Tokyo. He also said the recently announced Boot Camp software, which allows Intel-based Mac computers to run the Windows operating system, won’t have a big impact on Adobe’s Mac software line-up. ‘For the majority of our products, writing directly to the Macintosh operating system is an advantage to the customers and you will see us continue to do so and not work through Boot Camp or the Windows emulator because we think that will not be good for the majority of our customers,’ he said,” Williams reports.
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MDN Magic Word: Soon
As in I won’t be getting a MacBook Pro anytime soon.
who cares when you will get a macbookpro…a**hole
I’m going to not eat a sandwich today.
Yeah, that is about on the same relevancy scale as the first post.
Adobe = Pathetic. Damn, they’re almost as lame as Microsoft is these days. Oh well, just like Microsoft, they won’t get a dime of my money until they get off their asses.
I think it’s relevant. Adobe’s failure to provide Universal binaries is already hurting sales of the intel Macs, and is screwing up purchasing patterns.
At my company, we’re almost ready to make new workstation purchases. If we buy today, we get the quad-G5’s, which according to Apple’s earnings call will be replaced before the end of this calendar year. So we wait for the intels. But we can’t buy the intel hardware until the Adobe suite is out. More pushbacks.
The guy showed up at WWDC and pledged that he was on board. Yay partnership. Then he f’ed us all. Talk is cheap. Adobe has failed to produce, and it’s hurting Apple.
Adobe got their Intel developers Mac so long ago and still can’t get photoshop out the door this year. What’s up….
the macbook pro will run Adobe under Rosetta … right?
It may not be as fast as it could, but it wouldn’t suck
that much would it?
Adobe is going the fast as they can. They want your money as much as you want to give it to them. The problem is, as was admitted on an Adobe developer’s blog, that they’ve got a ton of legacy code from the 68k Mac days (written in Metrowerks) that simply won’t run on the Intel Macs, so they basically need to re-write the entire application in XCode. That will take a long time, but once they’re done, the performance should be better than ever.
Here’s that blog.
If you read Scott Byer’s blog (he’s one of the guys working on PS at Adobe – here’s the address http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/), it makes sense that they’re not going to release a Universal version of CS2, but what still gets me is that Chizen had the nerve to ask SJ what took him so long to come to Intel. Things at Adobe started going downhill when he took over.
On a somewhat related note, when are they going to give us an idea of what their plans are for the MM apps, like Freehand, and the whole GoLive-Dreamweaver deal?
OUCH!!!
This hurts.
What’s the big deal anyway, photoshop under rosetta on a macBook Pro will still run the same speed or faster as on a G4 powerbook..
The universal binary of photoshop will speed it up a lot, but on the other hand, the powerpc version should be fine on intel macs for now.
If it’s a big deal, buy the intelmac and run it in XP. Truth be told it may test faster tham the PPC and faster than Rosetta, it sure doesn’t feel that way. Also, Adobe did some irritating thing to CS2 for the Windows side. Me, I’m buying the new powermac and saving a $1,000.00 of my money by using Rosetta and not upgrading my Adobe/Macromedia stuff until summer of next year.
Wonder if this news might help Aperture eat into the Adobe marketshare just a tad…
As for me, looks like I’ll be waiting till Fall 2007 for Intel-native Photoshop Elements… 🙁 (Yeah, PE runs under Rosetta, but it’s sluggish, especially using Photomerge to put together panoramas which I’ll be doing a lot of after my Alaska trip this summer…)
Adobe products sucks just a little bit less than most M$ applications. There are better alternatives to everything they produce. And they charge to much their crap.
1. I take offense from those that insist on referring to the new Mac’s as “Mactel’s”
2. I don’t want the next PS to be merely complient. I want it to be the best PS experience and performance found on ANY platform.
3. If it is taking until the second half of next year, item No. 2 better apply.
A lot of old timers are like me, we know the software and it runs very well, it is hard to justify an upgrade of software just because I bought a faster machine.
If there wasn’t a processor change I wouldn’t even be looking at updating my Adobe software. I only upgraded last time to make use of OS X without Classic.
Apple has been doing Adobe a favor the last 4 -5 years with switching Mac users over to newer software. Quark dropped the ball and gave an opening to Indesign. Adobe needs to be careful it doesn’t make the same mistake.
No new mac until Adobe is ready.
Unless Apple has some new whizbang thing to run the Windows versions of Photoshop, et al on a Mac. (then I won´t need a Mac version of the software!)
No new mac until Adobe is ready.
Unless Apple has some new whizbang thing to run the Windows versions of Photoshop, et al on a Mac. (then I won´t need a Mac version of the software!)
No new mac until Adobe is ready.
Unless Apple has some new whizbang thing to run the Windows versions of Photoshop, et al on a Mac. (then I won´t need a Mac version of the software!)
No new mac until Adobe is ready.
Unless Apple has some new whizbang thing to run the Windows versions of Photoshop, et al on a Mac. (then I won´t need a Mac version of the software!)
“Quark dropped the ball and gave an opening to Indesign. Adobe needs to be careful it doesn’t make the same mistake.”
Does anyone remember Umax scanners? They refused to provide drivers for their $600.00 scanners when OS X came out. Their statement was “buy new hardware”.
I swore up and down by Umax until they shafted me with the driver issue for OS X. They did the same thing with the XP drivers. Epson on the other hand provided a ton of drivers for their printers, I’ve replaced several printers with Epson because they took care of us during that transition.
If I was Quark, I’d be building a “Photoshop killer”, a vector program, a pdf solution, and an answer to Flash and packaging it with QuarkXpress. Do you suppose this is why Adobe hasn’t sold off the Macromedia duplicates?
“Adobe products sucks just a little bit less than most M$ applications. There are better alternatives to everything they produce. And they charge to much their crap.”
Hey iDon’t, tell us exactly what is the *better* alternative to Photoshop. Are you having trouble with your pirated copy of CS2?
chizen is one of the biggest meat haeds going around. he doesnt know the product at all.
…“and not work through Boot Camp”
so i dont have to run photoshop in xp on an intel based mac, no kidding you dickhead!!! other posts are right adobe are definately not what they used to be.
I only hope that when Adobe release cs3 and show it at an apple developers conference or macworld, that that steve asks as chizen leaves the stage ” what took you so long dickwad?”
This has little to do with the difficulty of building for the Mac and more to do with Vista’s delay and planned rewrite. They don’t want to rewrite PS unless they have to. They’re king of the hill, buying Macromedia killed the only competiton the had.
A year is a long wait, it is also enough time to look at alternatives to Adobe, I will be, my G4 says it is time to upgrade! Maybe someone will release an “Adobe” killer. A liitle competition would be good for Adobe. : )
“Mactel” – eeewwwwww!!! I don’t like how that sounds. I’ll stick with Intel Mac or Intel-based Mac.
Much better.