No Adobe Universal Binary Support

According to Adobe & Macromedia’s PDF, there will be no support for the new Intel based Macs. What! No support until the new products comes out. Given that the new CS3 is in the works, their focused on making the new products work for the new Macs and also still work on the older Macs too. Adobe & Macromedia are using the new Xcode 2.2 by Apple for the development platform, which plan is to ease development. Designers should plan on saving up for the launching of the new products, which should be out within the first 18-24 months of when the Intel based Mac hits the street, baseed off of the past. For now, everyone will have to just run their current version, which will run on the new Intel based Macs with Rosetta.

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Rosetta, is Apple’s answer for outdated applications that where made for the Power-PC based Macs, but it seems to come with a price. The performance of this appears to be slow, especially when using Photoshop in a professional environment, do to the fact that Rosetta is an emulator.

“In general, applications that are not designed to run on Intel-based Mac computers, including current versions of Adobe’s creative professional applications, may be noticeably slower than they are running on PowerPC based Macs. Instead of experiencing much-anticipated speed enhancements, customers are likely to see some degradation of performance.”

For the maximum workflow for professionals seeking efficiency, they should continue using their Power-PC based Mac for now, or have the new Intel based Mac machine with a large amount of RAM of at least one gigabyte, to run any of the Adobe or Macromedia programs. Even with using Rosetta, Adobe users will find that Version Cue Workspace will not work, due to problems with the way Rosetta works. There is no official support for Rosetta, when it comes to problems that are occurring when running applications under the emulator.

The disappoint fact is that Adobe and Macromedia, the world’s leader and the most key software company for designers, know far before anyone else outside of Apple, that this change was coming. Now to just sit back and wait for CS3 to come out, which could be as far away as another year away.