Mac Pro sales waiting on Adobe

I agree that CS2 runs like bad garbage on the intel macs, and I hope that an intel cs3 fixes that. But I also hope that cs3 fixes the terribleness that is CS2 regardless of intel mac or no. CS was great. CS2 is horrible even on a nonintel mac. Intel mac with cs2 is like a nightmare from beyond the grave.

Personally, I'm looking forward to the day Apple software displaces Adobes. Right now I'm either using Windows to run CS or limping along with Rosetta. Considering the money I've laid out over the years to Adobe, I definitely feel a change is in order.

I acn attest to this adobe pause. We have an older PB Titanium and an older iMac. We were loking to upgrade to a MBP and a MP... but I am making us wait until CS3 and FW9 come out. because ive heard the performance horror stories. However.. adobe is missing out too. We are still running CS 1.3. And I made the decision when the intel move was announced that we would not be purchasing any new version of software that was not o be made universal in a free upgrade or modestly priced .x release. And o there you have it...

Wow, I'm the only exception. :-) I really want a 2.66 GHz Mac Pro* but $2500 is a little on the high side for me. (So is $2300 with my company discount or $2200 rfb. I really want it in the $1800-$2000 range.) So I'm waiting until they bump the Pros and the slower ones get cheaper--either sold as discontinued (Core Duo MBPs went from $2000 to $1300 overnight when the Core 2's came out!) or retained as a new low-end model. (The introduction of the Mac Pro marks the first time in YEARS that Apple didn't have a $1500-$2000 base model tower available.) I also want to have Leopard included (it'll serve as a home file server so Time Machine is essential) and iLife 07.

* From 2.0 to 2.66 GHz = 13% more cost and 30% more speed. Going from 2.66 to 3.0 is the exact opposite--13% faster for 30% more money. The 2.66 is DEFINITELY the sweet spot.

We just bought a MacPro because of some SATA RAID compatibility problems we had with our old G5. Basically it was either to upgrade or return the ($3k) RAID.
We are running the Photoshop Beta and for photo editing is quite stable but as soon as I try to do any layer work it crashes and I have to load PS2. It is so painfully slow I want to cry.

Were running a mix, some MBP's, some G5's, and some G4 Al's, In the end, the MBP are ok - Illustrator CS2 crashed way too often (I stick with Ill CS), Photoshop CS2 is OK as long as you are not doing any heavy lifting. Dreamweaver 8 and Flash 8 performance - not bad. Of course, my previous machine was a MDD G4.

I know I, as well as my coworkers are waiting for Adobe to bring the CS series to the Intel. That didn't stop me from buying a new laptop but for now I went with just a low end MacBook... Once Adobe releases their macromedia series and CS3 and hopefully After Effects I know of at least 10 people here that will buy a new MacPro just for their home use. If Leopard is out by then, even better.

Running Photoshop on Intel is the one reason Im still using a Powermac G5. (running cs2 on a macbook pro is terrible, bridge keeps crashing). As soon as CS3 with universal support is out, im picking up a new Macpro.

I am actually waiting for the chance that MBPs might be upgraded in due course in order to be more "leopardish", technologically spoken...

I'm waiting for 2x quad core more then Adobe (since I'm not a graphic guy).