Adobe Universal Support FAQ

[freeny]

Ooops! wrong thread. sorry.

 

[Kyrom]

photoshop under wine/crossover office

No, most existing software will run on the new Intel Macs. It's just that apps that aren't Universal will run under Rosetta. Rosetta is PPC emulation technology that does binary translation of PPC instructions to Intel instructions. As with any emulation, there's a performance penalty, but based on reports from people who have Intel Macs, it's really quite good compared to other emulation. Something like 50% of native performance.

Why not run the windows version of photoshop etc with Wine or Crossover office. Codeweavers announced that they are releasing an OSX version of their application very soon.

I have been using WINE to run photoshop in Linux for the past couple years, and I have to say that the performance of the program is actually better than under Windows XP. Just a thought........Thats what I am planning for my new MAC...