Universal binary status of Adobe applications

"Windows XP has been around for nearly 5 years, running on the same architecture as it always has. Why don't we compare apples to apples and see how quickly programs get ported to the 64bit versions of Vista? No one is forcing you to upgrade. If you have been using your quad G5 till now you can continue to use it tomorrow."

Are you kidding? 99% of apps compiled for WinXP 32 bit will run FULL SPEED on Vista x64. Your point is hardly apples to apples.

Well I'm very unimpressed with the performance of Photoshop and other Adobe apps on my work PC. It's a Dell with Pentium 4 3.20GHz, and 2 GB of RAM and it runs Photoshop slower than my G4 1.25 GHz with 1.25 GB of RAM most of the time... wtf?! I max out my ram more on the PC than I ever have on my Mac. The Adobe apps just run better on Mac... I can't wait to get a MacBook Pro and the updated Adobe apps, they'll smoke the PC versions I'm sure.

Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question. I can't get a simple answer anywhere. Is it possible to develop and compile a universal binary application _without_ an intel mac? (or is the $2000 G5 I bought last month rapidly turning into a pretty paperweight?)

Adobe is only moving from Code Warrior to Xcode *now*? This tells me there is serious incompetence going on at Adobe.

It's corporately irresponsible to have your flagship products depend on a development environment that had been officially unsupported by its company (Code Warrior) for years. (How many? 2? 3?)

Moving to Xcode should have started the minute Metrowerks announced they were no longer developing Code Warrior, not now.

"... As we work with Apple we want to make sure that our applications keep evolving and taking really good advantage of all the new innovations they've got. They came out with the dual processor, dual core G5's ..."


In addition to MacTel optimization, this quote tells me that Adobe may be seriously optimizing for multiple processors, potentially giving their apps the advantage that video ones have taken advantage of for "years"

A (read: not "any") substantial move in this direction by the Adobe beast is worth the wait (again!).

Unfortunately for PPC hangers-on (like myself) I would be fooling myself to think they would compile a universal version. But then again, my foolishness at times knows no bounds!

Windows XP has been around for nearly 5 years, running on the same architecture as it always has. Why don't we compare apples to apples and see how quickly programs get ported to the 64bit versions of Vista? No one is forcing you to upgrade. If you have been using your quad G5 till now you can continue to use it tomorrow.

If you want to be an early adopter you should expect things to take some time.

Dangerous for Adobe? You're not serious. If Adobe doesn't update their software soon enough, I'm dropping Apple. At least with Windows you don't have to wait for software.

I think this is a very dangerous situation for Adobe.
The reason being that Apple are famous for doing things their own way and they usually deliver a solid solution. What i think might happen is that Apple will release a rival to Photoshop, when the rest of the mactel range comes out, Apple are pretty much the only (well a few traitors hehe) hardware used in the creative industry, and Adobe products are a big part of that, especially now that Adobe own Macromedia too.

Look at Aperture, how long did it take Adobe to integrate RAW image support to it's products, Apple saw an gap in the market and now we have an amazing piece of kit to complement any digital photographers Mac.

Photoshop CS works as well on my MacBook Pro as it did on my PBG4 1.0GHz. Other than starting it up, I don't really detect much of a slowdown. Granted, a PBG4 isn't exactly the Quad G5 market that Photoshop is meant for, but...

So where does that leave the universal binary release date of photoshop? or do we still have to wait for CS3?