Adobe CS4 offers overall improvements, higher upgrade pricing

I'd like to mention that we law abiding citizens get REALLY ticked off when others admit to piracy since it is what drives the price up. If the cost of the software is too much for you... then maybe you should stay out of the deep end of the pool. As one who will hire creatives to my firm, I will choose the less qualified candidate every time if the more experienced one has arrived there by ill gotten gains. If I can't trust him not to steal from others, he's not getting closer than a 10' pole to me. Catch! Here's some "floaties" until you learn to swim.

Upgrading from 3.3 to 4 shows $440, but it is the only upgrade that apparently can't be pre-ordered yet (at least, I'm not finding a way to do it). I don't get that at all. I keep waiting to find the price of that upgrade gone up. Grrrrrr.

Begin rant.

Was going to bite the bullet and upgrade design premium cs3 for $830AU or whatever it was a few days ago. Now it's gone up to $983.40AU. For an upgrade. Crazy talk. That's just rude. For those of us not charging like a wounded bull that is a fair bit to claw back.

Tell me why is a download $894AU and delivered $983AU. Is there really that much packaging and is it hand delivered by the CEO.

Bittorrent is looking more attractive by the day otherwise i'll stick to cs3 and maybe do the next one. Not going to make me design or program any better.

End rant.

fyi, should be out in the stores in asia on Oct 13-14,
price unknown.
Word around is it would be cheaper than cs3.
cheers

Just say no to Adobe!!!

"26.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional hard-disk space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices)"

Will this will not work on Macbook Air with SSD?

the CS4 is actually pretty awesome. Had chance to try new Ae and the GPU rendering speeds up the things quite a bit.

This is hillarious. Adobe set up a forum to ask users what they wanted to see in the next gen of CS. 75% of the posts said something like "lower the price and fewer people will steal it." So what do they do, raise the price. Makes me want to go find the torrent.

I've been developing a third party program for these new programs. So I know a little something, something. Besides wonderful speed improvement, the new programs do have a lot of other wonderful new improvements and features that I can't imagine anyone not wanting to upgrade or buy. They also put a lot of work into these programs on the surface and below. So in my opinion this is a major and well worth it upgrade.. I even decided to only release a version of my new App for this new version, because it's that much better. A very hard decision because I wrote my App to work with many of their older versions too.

Robert
Software Developer
Zoshe Foundation
www.zoshe.com

mmm will prolly download the evaluations but i'm not seeing a compelling reason to upgrade my studio - CS3 was a must have as it actually ran on intel macs.

i'm thrilled with dreamweaver and fireworks' new features. hopefully indesign doesn't use a different save format. flash again seems to have more designer oriented rather than developer features. motion and inverse kinetics...

re pshop's gpu acceleration - lets hope it's as goof or better than the built in os quartz engine (as used by pixelmator et al)