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Adobe Creative Suite 5 Set to Launch April 12th

One of my school's Mac labs are still using old G5 Powermacs. Isn't CS5 Intel only? I'm excited for them to upgrade that lab for fall semester since this pretty much forces them as they always use the latest version of CS. Despite having a good sized graphic design program and one of the better ones in the region, my school still gives the department tiny budgets. Of course basketball gets a new $70 million arena made by the same company who built the new Sprint Center in Kansas City while we suffer. They were actually $1 million under budget so instead of saving it they blew it on making the inside fancier. No wonder the economy is in trouble. Even "smart" people can't handle their money properly.

Personally I think the best bang for their buck is 27" quad-core iMacs. They use pretty good IPS monitors which are good for design purposes when calibrated properly, and they wouldn't have to buy a seperate tower and Apple Cinema Display which would cost probably twice as much while having a smaller footprint. I could see students stealing the Magic Mouse all the time though. Nobody wants the crappy MightyMouse in the labs now.
 
I don’t know what ppl have against CS4. To my knowledge CS3 was a lemon and once I upgraded to CS4 the startup times got slashed by HALF (I am not joking!). The speed is nice and I hope CS5 will be as much competitive in this department.
 
dashiel said:
let me guess… more ******** adobe user interface decisions that aren't applied consistently across panels in the same application, let alone different apps. a couple of useful new features in photoshop, illustrator and flash, a plethora of useless features that suck up RAM and hard drive space which no one will use. the copywriters for fireworks, dreamweaver will continue to have make the lack of any real change sound like a big deal. the cost for individual upgrades will be so absurd you end up buying a suite with 4 apps you don't need, use or want.

the apps will still crash without rhyme or reason, they'll take up more ram and hard drive space and work slower for no discernible reason.
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Yes, maybe it's time to get a new job and replace that old G3 of yours, right?

Even on my old Hackintosh (a Q6600 with 8GB of ram) CS4 (only use flash, ps and illustrator) was extremely fast, compared to a current iMac. That just shows how amazingly fast is OSX compared to Windows; sadly it can't be said regarding apple hardware.
 
mabaker said:
I don’t know what ppl have against CS4. To my knowledge CS3 was a lemon and once I upgraded to CS4 the startup times got slashed by HALF (I am not joking!). The speed is nice and I hope CS5 will be as much competitive in this department.
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Initial release of CS4 (at least for Mac) was nothing short of disaster - waaaay too buggy and crap...

However, if you patched it up, it should run awesomely now :)

Hopefully CS5 release will be less buggy...

Cant wait for new Flash - looks very promising indeed!
 
Darkroom said:
no. they've written their new Mercury engine with nVidia's CUDA.
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And that should be supported on the mac as well, using the right gpu's off course.

I don't understand all the bitching here. The 64-bt transition is a major long awaited feature for anybody using this stuff professionally. I for one am excited. I would love to try it out on a new 12-core mac pro:)
 
eppel said:
And that should be supported on the mac as well, using the right gpu's off course.

I don't understand all the bitching here. The 64-bt transition is a major long awaited feature for anybody using this stuff professionally. I for one am excited. I would love to try it out on a new 12-core mac pro:)
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Snap! I can't wait to see how this runs on a Mac Pro - if finally we're looking at software which can utilise the power available to it my productivity should get the boost I've been waiting for.
 
-=XX=-Nephilim said:
Cant wait for new Flash - looks very promising indeed!
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i'm particularly looking forward to the improved ActionScript editor. i have mixed feelings about .xfl, since (as far as i'm aware) we will still have to open up Flash and republish the .swf after changes are made. although, i do see there are other benefits of .xfl then making effortless alterations. maybe Adobe might bundle Flash with a light weight external publisher, in that case a revised .xfl file could be republished with simple drag and drop, or even right click > open with > external publisher.
 
firestarter said:
You could probably get him to download it to your iDisk. I think the Adobe store will just be looking for a US credit card.
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I quite like having the DVDs. So I'll probably order from B&H to ship to Texas and then have that sent over. It's what I did with the CS3 upgrade. Ended up costing me less in $ than the price was in £ so I saved even before the exchange rate was taken into account!
 
robbieduncan said:
I quite like having the DVDs. So I'll probably order from B&H to ship to Texas and then have that sent over. It's what I did with the CS3 upgrade. Ended up costing me less in $ than the price was in £ so I saved even before the exchange rate was taken into account!
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Luckily I was in the States just after CS3 came out. Got a good price in an Apple store in Kansas.
 
Can't upgrade to CS5 until new MacPros are out - our current G5 PPCs will not be able to run CS5

Can't currently upgrade Macs - current line too near end cycle and have been caught before with last of PPCs.

Can't go any other route and blow cash - need MacPro grunt for 3D rendering.

All current design and 3D software Mac based

Bit of a car crash! :eek:
 
Let's hope this version brings a nice performance update because of the 64 Bit support and the Cocoa rewrite!

And I really don't understand how some of you guys are saying that the Creative Suite software is more stable on Windows because I have exactly the opposite impression. After 1 and a half year of running CS4 at work (Windows) and at home (Mac) I can definitely say that CS4 apps crash more on Windows than they do on my Mac.

But hey, that's just my experience with it.
 
firestarter said:
Makes sense to miss versions. I'm still on CS3. It'll be interesting to see if the 2 version jump in Photoshop gives me anything I actually need.
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Same here. I, and most of my clients are still on CS3. I just hope that the apps are more consistent with each other this time around.
djrod said:
so...intel only? :p
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Yup. Which is why my CS5 upgrade won't be happening until later in the year.
 
Will Photoshop be available individually for $99?

No? Oh well, 3 more years on CS3 i guess...

Wake me for CS6....
 
Fewer tools - more parallels

Adobe needs to finally adopt some serious tool fluidity and parallel the menus and commands. For example: there's no reason why the quick keys can't match.
 
Now beachballing 25% faster than CS4.

Seriously, I'm pretty pumped to see what they do. Cocoa 64bit would be a very welcome upgrade.

I hope they drop the prices a little....!
 
I see a lot of Apple hypocrit groupies complaining about the CS as well as Flash (well I have to agree flash is pretty bloated)

>What are the alternatives please ?
 
I know it's soon but...

I'd really like to know what kind of integration is present in CS5 with any of the products now under their umbrella as part of the Omniture acquisition last September?
 
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