Adobe confirmed Tuesday that future versions of its Creative Suite will run only on Intel-based Mac computers. There will be no support offered for PowerPC based systems.
The company's decision follows Apple's announcement in June that it was discontinuing support for the PowerPC in its new operating systems, starting beginning with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). With Apple's future development focused on Intel Macs, Adobe is aligning its resources accordingly.
According to Adobe, existing customers who own Creative Suite 3 and Creative Suite 4 will still be able to use the software on either a PowerPC-based Mac or an Intel-based Mac without having to make any changes. However, Adobe will provide support for these two suites only to address critical issues that may arise.
Creative Suite is Adobe System's collection of well-known industry-standard graphic design, video editing, and Web development applications. These applications include Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Flash, and many others.
While Snow Leopard has not been released yet, and the new version of the Creative Suite hasn't been announced, either, Adobe decided to announced these changes now so that its customers will have time to plan their migration strategy accordingly. This basically means you should go get yourself an Intel-based Mac if you haven't done so already.
For more information on the discontinuation of support, check out Adobe's FAQ.
This article was first published as a blog post on CNET News.
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Adobe Creative Suite to abandon PowerPC Macs
> This basically means you should go get yourself an Intel-based Mac if you haven't done so already.
No, no, NEVER. I'll never buy any x86(_64) hardware.
PowerPC box owners should now plan to switch to GNU/Linux and FOSS products such as GIMP and Inkscape. 10 users paying, for example, developers of GIMP $200 (totally $2000) and asking, for example, for super CMYK support will result in that CMYK will be very soon in GIMP. Anyone would benefit from that.
Those who plan to buy new machines, should consider buying MIPS- or ARM-based.
Time to abandon Apple, really. Why? Because otherwise Apple soon or later will abandon YOU.
Posted by Douglas on Friday, August 14 2009 11:10 PM