Running Adobe Suite Osx Mac OS X

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Running Adobe Suite Osx Mac OS X

Since the introduction of Mac OS X in May 2001, Adobe has delivered more flagship applications on this platform than any other software vendor, satisfying the needs of our creative professional customers.

It is a great platform for our latest generation of Macintosh-compatible software.

The all-new Adobe Creative Suite 2 and Mac OS X v.10.4 (Tiger) make this a great time to be an Adobe customer on the Mac platform.

Adobe and Apple have worked closely together through the development of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and Adobe Creative Suite 2 to ensure that our software is fully compatible with Tiger.

After rigorous testing by Adobe engineers, Adobe Creative Suite 2, as well as its individual components (Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2, Adobe InDesign CS2, Adobe GoLive CS2, and Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional), are now certified as compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

Would I be better off purchasing a high-spec Intel-based Windows PC rather than an iMac, or can I be confident that I can run the Adobe Creative Suite 2 on the new iMac Richard Minns.

This has not been converted to universal binary format for Intel-based Macs, and never will be.

As a result, it has to run via the Rosetta translator, and the Windows version of ACS2 runs up to three times faster.

Adobe is writing new versions of its programs and will launch Adobe Creative Suite 3 for Intel-based Macs, perhaps next year.

Also, by that time, Apple will have released a new version of the Mac OS X operating system, plus Intel-based versions of its professional desktop PCs, perhaps using superior chips that Intel is releasing later this year.

By waiting you will get a better computer, a better operating system and (probably) better applications, all of which should retain their usefulness - and value - longer.

This could provide a staging strategy, where you run ACS2 under Windows while having a Mac for other purposes.

However, Boot Camp is still an early beta and not recommended for serious use.

Some users have found that after running XP, they were unable to reboot to Mac OS X.

The tower systems are more expandable and flexible, and the iMac screen is not easily adjustable.

For best performance, Adobe recommends using two hard drives, with ACS on a different drive from the operating system.

ACS2 costs almost 800, and in a commercial setting, it is a false economy to run it on constrained hardware.