I'm nearing retirement, and am taking on a few projects before I'm done. Tops I'll have them done within the year, so I don't want to invest a ton of time in learning/getting used to new stuff that's not necessary.
I own Adobe's Master Collection CS6 for Mac. I stopped doing Adobe stuff when it didn't work anymore, not realizing at the time that Apple and Adobe were working together to force us to upgrade to the subscription model and how stuff did/didn't work with certain versions of Mac, etc. At that point I was beyond furious, having spent about $6,000 on the Master Suite for BOTH Macs and PC's for my office and suddenly I needed to start spending on a subscription. From that point on I had someone else from another department do any InDesign and PhotoShop stuff I needed.
I tried to use the subscription model recently, and was blown away with the BS of the "Cloud" junk, constant downloads and updates and stuff running in the background, helper apps, fans turning on constantly (2017 iMac Pro w/ a zillion GB of RAM, etc...) and slowing everything down, and I still can't believe this is their "new and better" option.
What I plan to do is top out the RAM and SSD of whatever Mac I have that can run Adobe's CS6, and use it off line, with all updates turned off, etc. I will do my InDesign and PhotoShop projects on there (with Mac's Time Machine for my backup insurance) and doing it all off line and doing just pretty basic outline and photo touchup stuff with InDesign and PhotoShop. I never needed anything complicated and fancy. Even my old photo scanner has basically the same specs as the better new ones, the old software not working on newer machines is the only thing that kept me from using it.
Has anyone else done something like this? Will I have any issues that you can foresee? I have no use for Cloud connecting (I prefer to not have it actually) and everything I'd be doing is offline anyway. Do all the "End of Life" and "no updates or support" warnings that I keep reading about have any downside really, if I'm not connected to the internet, and just doing simple things? Or is it all just marketing and intended to scare people into changing from what used to work?
Any input from anyone who has done something like this or knows about this I'd appreciate... Just want to check before I set up my ideal work station (with stuff from years ago). Thank you!
I own Adobe's Master Collection CS6 for Mac. I stopped doing Adobe stuff when it didn't work anymore, not realizing at the time that Apple and Adobe were working together to force us to upgrade to the subscription model and how stuff did/didn't work with certain versions of Mac, etc. At that point I was beyond furious, having spent about $6,000 on the Master Suite for BOTH Macs and PC's for my office and suddenly I needed to start spending on a subscription. From that point on I had someone else from another department do any InDesign and PhotoShop stuff I needed.
I tried to use the subscription model recently, and was blown away with the BS of the "Cloud" junk, constant downloads and updates and stuff running in the background, helper apps, fans turning on constantly (2017 iMac Pro w/ a zillion GB of RAM, etc...) and slowing everything down, and I still can't believe this is their "new and better" option.
What I plan to do is top out the RAM and SSD of whatever Mac I have that can run Adobe's CS6, and use it off line, with all updates turned off, etc. I will do my InDesign and PhotoShop projects on there (with Mac's Time Machine for my backup insurance) and doing it all off line and doing just pretty basic outline and photo touchup stuff with InDesign and PhotoShop. I never needed anything complicated and fancy. Even my old photo scanner has basically the same specs as the better new ones, the old software not working on newer machines is the only thing that kept me from using it.
Has anyone else done something like this? Will I have any issues that you can foresee? I have no use for Cloud connecting (I prefer to not have it actually) and everything I'd be doing is offline anyway. Do all the "End of Life" and "no updates or support" warnings that I keep reading about have any downside really, if I'm not connected to the internet, and just doing simple things? Or is it all just marketing and intended to scare people into changing from what used to work?
Any input from anyone who has done something like this or knows about this I'd appreciate... Just want to check before I set up my ideal work station (with stuff from years ago). Thank you!
