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Adobe's Bruce Chizen: Adobe CS 3 to Debut By Mid-2007

by , 1:20 PM EST, March 24th, 2006

During an interview with Forbes magazine's Danit Lidor, Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen revealed that Adobe Creative Suite (CS) 3 will ship during the second quarter of 2007. The company has previously said that Universal Binaries of those applications won't be available until the next major iteration of the suite is released.

In its coverage of the news, Macworld UK also cited a blog post by Adobe engineer Scott Byer, who explained that his company can't easily pull the Photoshop code into Apple's Xcode programming environment and do a simple recompile of it. They use Visual Studio and Metrowerks, and he has found that Apple doesn't have a version of Xcode "that handles a large application well."

While Apple handled the transition to PowerPC processors with some engineering tricks that made the switch relatively painless, Adobe doesn't have an easy workaround this time, Mr. Byer noted. As a result, he said, the company believes it is "far better to focus on making sure Photoshop CS3 is able to absolutely squeeze every ounce of power out of what I'm sure will be pretty spankin' Intel-based towers by that point than to do tons of work moving an old code base to new tools."

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Close Name:Small White Car Posts: 1960 Joined: 02 Jul 2004
Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:42 pm Subject:

Well, waiting is no fun but by the time this comes out I'm sure it will be FAR better than any solution they could rush out by the end of this year. Better to wait a year for a good solution than rush a crappy one.


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Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:47 pm Subject: Large app???

Somehow I bet Final Cut Pro is a pretty large app....


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Close Name:burrito Posts: 177 Joined: 07 Aug 2005
Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:05 pm Subject:

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Somehow I bet Final Cut Pro is a pretty large app....


agreed, and i bet logic pro isn't that tiny, either..


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Close Name:Small White Car Posts: 1960 Joined: 02 Jul 2004
Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:08 pm Subject:

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Somehow I bet Final Cut Pro is a pretty large app....


agreed, and i bet logic pro isn't that tiny, either..


Well, I have a feeling that the Apple teams were expecting this a bit earlier on than Adobe knew about it. Who really knows how long it took them to work everything out?


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Close Name:Al Swearengen Posts: 339 Joined: 10 May 2005
Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:14 pm Subject: Since OSX

Steve said that OSX was running on Intel since day one.

Hey Apple's 30th anniversary is coming up. Check out today's (24 March 06) Joy of Tech http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/index.html

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Somehow I bet Final Cut Pro is a pretty large app....


agreed, and i bet logic pro isn't that tiny, either..


Well, I have a feeling that the Apple teams were expecting this a bit earlier on than Adobe knew about it. Who really knows how long it took them to work everything out?


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Close Name:davebarnes Posts: 130 Joined: 12 Jan 2005
Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:19 am Subject: Good/Bad news, it depends upon performance

If the performance of Photoshop (using Rosetta) on an Intel PowerMac is better than the performance of Photoshop on my PowerMac G5 1.8 GHz, then I will buy a new Intel PowerMac.

I really don't see Adobe products as THE gating item. For me, it is Microsoft's Virutal PC. If it does not run on an Intel-based Mac, then I can't buy that Mac.

,dave


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Close Name:deasys Posts: 296 Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:55 am Subject:

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Well, I have a feeling that the Apple teams were expecting this a bit earlier on than Adobe knew about it. Who really knows how long it took them to work everything out?


Apple has been encouraging developers to migrate to Cocoa and its development environment since 2000. How much warning should Adobe have had?

Instead, Adobe hitched its development wagon to Microsoft's Visual Studio. Now we Mac users are expected to wait another 15 months--until mid 2007--for a native version of Photoshop. Ridiculous.

I, for one, will be seeking and hopefully using alternatives.


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Close Name:gslusher Posts: 2088 Joined: 13 Nov 2002
Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:29 am Subject: Virtual PC = No

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I really don't see Adobe products as THE gating item. For me, it is Microsoft's Virutal PC. If it does not run on an Intel-based Mac, then I can't buy that Mac.


I've read that Virtual PC does not work on Intel Macs. If you need Virtual PC, keep your old Mac. Of course, that doesn't mean that you can't buy a new Intel Mac. You could also buy an inexpensive PC to use with Windows programs. That would probably work better--it would certainly be faster.


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Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:17 pm Subject: why CS 3

I bearly want to get CS2 and now there will be CS3... It is so expesive agrrrrrrrrrrr


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Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:07 am Subject: virtual pc=SLOW

Get Parallels. It doesn't emulate the intel architecture. That means it runs almost at the native speed of the cpu (eons ahead of virtual pc). So in short, if you need Windows on a Mactel, get Parallels.


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Close Name:Intruder -   TMO Mac Specialist Posts: 3149 Joined: 07 Jul 2004
Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:40 pm Subject:

Also, the latest beta of Parallels will convert a VPC virtual machine to be used within Parallels. So, if you already have VPC, you can still use the Windows license that you already paid for.


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