Comments on: Adobe Dropping Support for PowerPC Macs in InDesign CS5

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:35:01 +0000

SORRY ADOBE, DURING THIS ECONOMY I CAN’T AFFORD TO BUY A NEW COMPUTER JUST TO
BE ABLE TO RUN PS CS5.

NO SALE. YOU LOSE.

By: greg

greg — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:16:40 +0000

there’s nothing stopping people who are using powerpc chips from using current versions of OSX or CS. i don’t understand why people think that companies should support legacy systems forever.

and remember, it’s not just adobe’s customers dealing with a down economy, adobe’s got to deal with it as well. and developing to support both chipsets increases their development costs.

again, nobody is forcing people to upgrade to snow leopard or CS5. and both companies have given plenty of warning ahead of time that this will be happening.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:13:08 +0000

It’s definitely the right time to drop Power PC, we still run G5 towers at work, they are work horses, not really that fast anymore but it does get the job done.

I will say that I bought the department a new C2D Imac and it monkey stomps these old $3,500 towers.

Hey printers: evolve or become extinct. I’m not saving down for you.

By: Steve Werner

Steve Werner — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:31:31 +0000

almaink,

You can get a Mac mini (Intel) beginning as low as $599.

Adobe still offers the Adobe Authorized Print Service Provider program for $595 per year which gives you two full copies of the Adobe Creative Suite (one Mac, one Windows).

There are ways of getting by if things are rough.

By: almaink

almaink — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:26:00 +0000

This is just insane IMO. Print shops like mine have been barely hanging on as it is and now we gotta buy new Macs to support software? Bad timing is all I can say…

By: Mark Hebert

Mark Hebert — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:52:24 +0000

WOW!

I had better upgrade my PowerBook Tiainium 800GHz to a Mac Mini G4 1.5! Also a brand used Dell 20′ UltraSharp just ripe for calibration, drool! With 1GB ram I would now have acres of space for all my open apps and OS X 10.4. Good bye spinning beach balls of death! And with 80GB HD to load up my newly bought CS2 Premium upgrade (off eBay, Bob) I won’t know what to do with myself. Ad in a full keyboard with it’s own keypad and SuperDrive to boot! Luxury!

How could I ever survive without this technology before?

Well… hidebound clients who still use Quark 4-6.5, PageMaker 6.5, InDesign 2.0 and only a few who have gotten up to thinking about anything CS2, that’s how.

By: elle

elle — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:49:44 +0000

Same here as Chris V. We’re still on G5 towers because they still get the job done. Comparable Intel Macs, OS X upgrades AND CS upgrades, all at once, cost too much. Going from 9 to X was at least doable piecemeal, but now it can’t be broken up into parts.

We’ll likely be switching to PCs and Windows (hurk), IT costs be damned. My department would be in for $7,500 on hardware alone if we went with high-end minis; we can get Core 2 Quad Dell workstations, Windows 7 and CS 5 for $7,000. There’s no way we’re giving up perfectly good 30″ cinemas for iMacs, and there’s no way we’re spending $2k+ per station on Intel Pros when we can get computers designed on spec to our actual needs for a fraction of the cost.

Damn you, Apple, for making your old hardware so sexy and still viable, but completely unsupportable! :p

By: Chris V.

Chris V. — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:52:58 +0000

@Steve:
In this difficult economy, upgrading the computers and software is cost prohibitive for my company. We’re primarily PowerPCs and only plan to get Intel Macs as needed (when a current PPC dies or has serious hardware issues).

I’ll still try and snag a copy for Windows at home though.

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:33:23 +0000

@joecab: Who said anyone was surprised?

By: joecab

joecab — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:29:49 +0000

How can this be a shock? When were you expecting them to make the switch? I can’t believe people still get surprised at stuff like this anymore. I thought we were pretty lucky getting CS4 on both chipsets.