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More apps that I'lll add no later than 1/30/06
I will definitely add Canvas, Keynote, iLife '06, and You Control to this list by 1/30/06. I may not include the other apps don king requests because, while I understand that creative pros use those apps, they aren't specifically for creative pros. If I tried to keep tabs on ALL software that creative pros use, I'd have no time to do anything else!
Please add font tools
Please add Altsys/Aldus/Altsys/Macromedia/FontLab's Fontographer http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/Fontographer/ and FontLab Studio http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/FontLab-Studio/ to the list...
What about the G5?
Thanks for the information. Obviously Apple and Adobe are the kingpins here.
I use the Adobe and Macromedia apps daily, running several at the same time, on a G4 dual 1MKz. This has memory and buss restrictions compared to the G5 and Intel Macs. My question is not when I can run these apps on an Intel machine that does not yet exist (Pro), but how long will Adobe and Apple be supporting the G5 in future app upgrades? If the answer was around 3 years, I would leap for the top of the line G5, and, when three or four years had passed, I would get a Pro Intel that has evolved past Apple's typical early-model problems.
Any thoughts out there?
-ddog
Add Software Request
Could you add DirectorMX and ProTools to the list?
Request for article
Hi Terri,
I have enjoyed following your comments on the plans for CS3 coming out. I will use Photoshop almost exclusively and would love an article outlining your opinion of which Mac to buy if you simply cannot wait another year. I am a Windows CS2 user now but my company wants to buy a Mac before year end and this is so confusing!
Thanks!
This is great!
Having just upgraded all of our software at work to OS X Tiger (and corresponding versions of other software we use to go along with the OS), this is a very useful tool. Keep up the great work! At least it gives those of us with those types of purchasing responsibilities for our workgroups a summary of what's down the road.
We haven't yet upgraded our hardware (we're all still on G4s), looks like it might be a good time to wait.
Error corrected and request noted
Inspiredmac, thanks for pointing out my error. The Macromedia Studio apps will be Universal at version 9, not 8. I'm correcting the table now. And Dan Schwartz, I'll add Fontographer and FontLab to the table the next time I update it.
Lost In Translation
Macromedia Studio 8 shipped in February 2006. It bears no Universal Logo to indicate that it's Intel-ready for the Mac.
Rosetta watch: Please add Canvas X
Hi, would you add ACD Systems of America's Canvas X to your Rosetta/Universal list.
Many thanks
Alan S
Possible software to add to your lest
As an art director/graphic designer I use a few titles that I didn't see on your list. I don't want you to go crazy calling everybody up, but in an effort to show you what's being used out here, I will just give you the names: Keynote, the entire iLife suite (iDVD, iPhoto, etc.), Sound Studio, Snapz Pro, Toast, You Control, Fruit Menu, Keyboard Maestro, Disk Warrior, Tech Tool Pro, Retrospect. There are more, but I'll keep the list to this. By the way, I love this feature/service that you're providing with this list. Please keep it going. It's very valuable!
Don King, New York City
Thank you!
Ms Terri Stone:
Thank you for taking on this responsibility. As a MAC based graphic designer, this information is of utmost importance to me, and I don't know where else I could find it. Please keep letting us know when it is safe to go in the water.
Carl Gray
So Jobs has once again
thrown out the software baby with the hardware bathwater!
And you thought OS 9 to OSX was a pain! Mr. Jobs is laughing all the way to the bank!
MacIntel Mess
Welcome to the mac nightmare. Aren't you glad you switched?!
No sign of problems on Photoshop at Macworld
Granted the RAM was maxed out on the iMac I tried at Macworld (2GB, a $300 option), I didn't notice any lag in Photoshop's reactions. Apple's theater demo seemed to prove that intensive operations were running smoothly too. Was the compatibility chart made after thorough testing or based on assumption? I am gladly welcoming the change and prospects and am now waiting for my own Intel iMac. :-)
expected switch dates
Any chance of adding a new column to your chart that states when the company plans to have made the switch to universal?
Answers to two questions
Moorhead9, I like your idea of adding a column to the chart that lists when the Universal version of a product will be available. I'll make that change the next time I update the chart (within the next two weeks). Not all companies will spill those beans, but some will.
And Yvaverous, I'm basing the compatibility chart only on what I hear from the companies themselves. (Creativepro.com doesn't maintain an independent lab that could test all of these apps.)
On 1/13, Adobe Principal Scientist Dov Issacs said the following in the Blueworld InDesign email list:
"1) Adobe has already committed to providing versions of its product under current development that will provide support both for the existing PowerPC and the new MacTel-based architectures under MacOS X. (In other words, don't count on native MacTel support for PageMaker, for example!)
"(2) Marketing hyperbole notwithstanding, moving from the PowerPC architecture to MacTel architecture while producing a universal binary is not a simple task for software developers. Many software developers, including Adobe, used development tools for the Mac that are not being updated to support the Intel x86 architecture. We were forced to start using Apple's xCode development tools, which are, let's say, a "work in progress." Adobe has been working very closely with Apple to resolve the tools and compiler problems, but it really isn't soup yet! The problem is roughly comparable to that of the transitions from the 68K to PowerPC and/or from MacOS 9 to MacOS X. Adobe won't ship product until we know our users can count on the new version working reliably and compatibly in both the PowerPC and Mac environments. And to squash any speculation, Adobe has put significant resource on the MacTel/tools transition ever since Apple first made support for such available shortly after Apple's original MacTel announcement.
"(3) When support for MacTel is available, it will be part of the Macintosh support. It won't be an extra cost or sidegrade option.
"(4) I wouldn't count on native Mactel and/or universal binary support for MacOS X until the next full release of eligible Adobe application products. And since we don't normally pre-announce product releases and dates, I cannot give you more guidance than that.
"(5) From what we know about use of existing Adobe applications on MacOS X on MacTel using "Rosetta" to emulate PowerPC, I really don't think you want to use this as your production environment.
"What this all means is that if you need to replace or add Macintosh systems TODAY, a Mactel system may be somewhat problematic for upwards of a year or more in terms of providing performance necessary for a productive production environment."