If you have a PowerPC you're out of luck
Ivan | Mon, 2009-08-17 15:44Both Apple with Snow Leopard and Adobe with CS5 are dropping support for PowerPC Macs.
Although you can of course still keep using them. There is not much reason to upgrade to CS5 in my opinion, I don't use 10% of CS4's features over CS3. I doubt there will be a major change in this regard in CS5.
Snow Leopard will be a speed improvement more than a feature improvement, so if you're ok with you PowerPC speed, there is no reason to upgrade to Snow Leopard either.
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lightroom will likely not support powerpcs in future versions, either.
but really, it's not realistic to expect software developers to support old hardware forever. there's nothing stopping people from using earlier versions of OSX or CS4 and below. if you really want to stay completely up-to-date, that includes buying new hardware sometimes, too.
Do you think upgrading to CS5 from CS3 would be worth it? If Adobe focused on speed improvements over features, I'd definitely upgrade.
And count me in on Snow Leopard. I'm looking forward to the speed improvements on my Mac Pro. My G4 Powerbook will remain on Leopard however.
CS3->CS4 was worth it only for the speed. But if you have a fast machine, it didn't matter anyway. CS4->CS5 will probably not have enough to justify the cost. But we'll have to wait and see.
I'll second that! if Adobe were to work on CS5 the same way Apple worked on snow leopard - refine rather than re-design - I'd definitely jump at it.
Mind you, I'm running CS1 at the moment, so that might also influence my decision.
I agree as well. We need speed and stability, not features.
i thought upgrading from cs3 to cs4 was worth it. but the newer "features" in cs4 were more about working efficiently than adding whiz/bang.
who knows what cs5 will bring.
This is the end of FreeHand!.. at last.... :)
Still hoping illustrator as light as freehand... :D
Still using cs3, and no reason moving to cs4
As noted above, I find CS4 more efficient, rather than more design saavy. Not in a hurry to upgrade to CS5 either.
Hoping I can coast for a few more years on what I purchased 1.5 years ago.
"Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised." - James Thurber
wait a sec. last i heard there was no release date for CS5 announced. its not even mentioned on adobes site... CS4 is hardly a year old?
i find most of the old versions of most ALL software more reliable than the new stuff. seems to me that software developers are just making bloated software that require new hardware, then they make newer software that makes larger demands on that. its just like the old anti-cocaine ad:
"i do cocaine so i can work harder so i can do more so i can make more money, so i can buy more cocaine, so i can work harder so i can do more so i can... ad infinitum"
unless you are needing to share files with colleagues or use the newest audio/video production hardware. i say save your money, use what you have until if flat out dies.
opening a 2 gig photoshop trade show display took about 30 min each to open and save 5 years ago. and guess what. it takes about 25 min today on my spankin new octocore macpro with photoshop cs4 - HOORAY FOR PROGRESS?