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Adobe Creative Suite 3 Announced

Just got off the phone with Adobe and if you buy a package that contains products shipping later (Production suite or Master Collection) YOU DO NOT GET ANYTHING UNTIL IT ALL SHIPS. So you will sit around waiting while PS, Illustrator, etc are on the shelf. With the MC you can buy another suite and just pay an upsell fee later (buy a currently shipping bundle for $1199, then pay the difference for the MC once the rest of the software ships). However if like me you want the Production Premium suite then you have to wait until July to get PS.

Come on Adobe...at least provide SOME way of getting apps that are done in the meantime.
 
Adobe Phone Order Line Is Nothing Academic

Mikevbf said:
Tell me what they say because I want the academic version of MC but do not have to wait until July to get any of the Adobe software. Where did you get the July date?
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Turns out the phone order line is only for NON-Academic purchases and they know nothing about academic pricing. They said ask your academic dealer. At this point, I think just ordering the MC for $999 is cheaper than any upgrade path I can see. Depends on what you want. For me, there is no one package that contains all I want and as soon as I add a second package or even the applications missing from the one set I would most use, it's more than $999. Plus as CTYankee points out above, the Production Premium that I would use most often doesn't ship until the MC ships in July anyway.

So looks like a lot of us will be adding CS3 to our arsenal LAST after eventhing else, both new hardware and Leopard is shipping. My GUESS is they want to tweak the video stuff for Leopard before they ship it which is why it won't go Gold until July after they can test everything with the release 10.5.0 version.
 
Master Collection Is Not Shipping Until July

Daschund said:
Gosh... One month still? And I thought that I was going to be able to play with it over the weekend... :-(
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Yeah and if you think that's bad, how would you like to be a Master Collector like me having to wait almost 4 more months? :eek: :rolleyes: :( That's one third of a year more. Talk about a pre-announcement. :rolleyes:
 
My CS3 Web Premium is ordered and shipping on the 25th April....
twiddle thumbs.....twiddle thumbs........;)
 
Kingsly said:
What!!!! No Adobe CS3 Web/Design Suite Premium Ultimate Edition? :confused:

I will never buy from them. :mad:


:p :D

(Is Adobe going Microsoft on us with all these editions? :rolleyes: )
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Funny :D

But seriously there should have been a Web/Design Premium edition (if there had to be so many in the first place).

The design ed left out Fireworks and the Web ed dumped InDesign.
I use 'em both so had to do an upgrade on InDesign as well as a Web Premium Edition upgrade:(
Kinda weird.
 
oldwatery said:
Funny :D

But seriously there should have been a Web/Design Premium edition (if there had to be so many in the first place).

The design ed left out Fireworks and the Web ed dumped InDesign.
I use 'em both so had to do an upgrade on InDesign as well as a Web Premium Edition upgrade:(
Kinda weird.
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All these editions are supposed to make it easy for the customer to get the right one... unfortunately, as in your case, it just confuses things. :eek:

Here's a novel iDea :)p ): Sell Photoshop. Sell Illustrator. Sell Dreamweaver, etc. INDIVIDUALLY!!!! :D
 
dcr said:
uh, they do.
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Word. A better idea would have been to let us pick and choose the products we want and then give a % discount based on the number of products you purchase. A build-your-own bundle type program.

Of course that would mean less profit for them as they couldn't make you buy products you didn't need.

But I did have the same thought about Microsoft as soon as I saw all the different versions.

And -HH, have you ordered over the phone from them, or only by web? I usually call and order from Adobe (and formerly Macromedia) because they can sometimes offer discounts not found online, and they are much more willing to assist with bundling, such as your case. I'd be willing to bet money that a rep will OK you buying the upgrade and then give you a proper serial number to use when prompted for the past version key. They did something very similar with me when I bought Studio 8.
 
dannyallen34 said:
Has anyone checked out the Student Licensing Option page?

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/openoptions/student.html

$500 for the Master Collection. Luckily, my university is a CLP member. I think I'll get one master collection for my PC and one for my Mac... only $1000!
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I am looking for a site that lets me see that but as far as I can tell no one is selling MC for $500.

Anyone got academic websites that offer more incentive?
 
kitki83 said:
I am looking for a site that lets me see that but as far as I can tell no one is selling MC for $500.

Anyone got academic websites that offer more incentive?
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I don't think there are any websites that sell that. Only members of Adobe's CLP program can sell it for that price. I know that my university is a member so they can sell it for $500 at the campus computer store.

All the other websites (and ebay) will be selling it for $999, but if your university is a CLP member, then you can get it directly from the university for $500.
 
dannyallen34 said:
I don't think there are any websites that sell that. Only members of Adobe's CLP program can sell it for that price. I know that my university is a member so they can sell it for $500 at the campus computer store.

All the other websites (and ebay) will be selling it for $999, but if your university is a CLP member, then you can get it directly from the university for $500.
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Ohh thanks for the information now to find out if my university is CLP member
I am looking at Adobe website about that.
 
Multimedia said:
Turns out the phone order line is only for NON-Academic purchases and they know nothing about academic pricing. They said ask your academic dealer. At this point, I think just ordering the MC for $999 is cheaper than any upgrade path I can see.
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I went to the acdemic section of adobe's site and it seems they offer an upgrade path within the academic line of software to MC. If so you could buy something like the web premium for $500 in April and then upgrade to MC for another $500 in July. Not sure about this, but I think that is how it would work. The only thing casting doubt on this scheme is when you click the upgrade to MC button on the academeic site, they still give the non academic upgrade example. Tell me if you get anything definitive on this. I will tell you if I do.
 
Back in '03 when I bought my Mac I qualified for Adobe Creative Suite Academic. I just got off the phone with Adobe sales. They quoted me the upgrade price of $599 for CS3 Design Premium. Seemed like a good deal to me so I placed my order. Woot!
 
kitki83 said:
Ohh thanks for the information now to find out if my university is CLP member
I am looking at Adobe website about that.
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I'm not sure if Adobe's website has that info. Go talk to your campus computer store and see because that's the only way I found out.
 
Mikevbf said:
I went to the acdemic section of adobe's site and it seems they offer an upgrade path within the academic line of software to MC. If so you could buy something like the web premium for $500 in April and then upgrade to MC for another $500 in July. Not sure about this, but I think that is how it would work. The only thing casting doubt on this scheme is when you click the upgrade to MC button on the academeic site, they still give the non academic upgrade example. Tell me if you get anything definitive on this. I will tell you if I do.
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I just received the following response from Academic Superstore relating to your post.

"At this time, we are unaware of any upgrades that are being offered for any of the design bundles to the Masters Edition."

Apparently, no academic "upsell" to MC upgrade exists currently.
 
jaw04005 said:
I just received the following response from Academic Superstore relating to your post.

"At this time, we are unaware of any upgrades that are being offered for any of the design bundles to the Masters Edition."

Apparently, no academic "upsell" to MC upgrade exists currently.
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thanks jaw
 
jaw04005 said:
I just received the following response from Academic Superstore relating to your post.

"At this time, we are unaware of any upgrades that are being offered for any of the design bundles to the Masters Edition."

Apparently, no academic "upsell" to MC upgrade exists currently.
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Academic Superstore is selling MC? I never saw it on their site. It seems they are only selling what is really gonna release next month, or am I wrong?
 
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