PC/Mac CS3 question...
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- Cptn_Uncanny
A quick question for all the Apple people here... yes I've already tried Adobe support, they send me around in circles.
I'm looking to switch to Mac in the near future, but also need to get the CS3 suite. If you buy it for the PC (as a download not hard copy), can you use that same license on a Mac?
Someone told me you can just download the mac demo and enter the same license number to unlock it?
- Jurre0
hi, I switched to Apple and according to the local apple store you can actually switch platform with the licence - please double check this though. BUT... i have to say, unless you are going to buy a the latest dual core with 10gb of ram, it is NOT going to be faster than a comparable pc. I am using cs3 and my 4 year old pc is faster, not kidding here. I find my Powerbook pro dual 2,4 with 3gb to be sluggish and sticky compared to my 2,4 ghz 2gb pc with XP - everything has a slight delay, even osx itself. It is also more buggy and crashy than i would like. Somehow I am not looking back, must be the 'cool' factor ;-) but it took me 6 months to get used to the thing and i still get stuff done faster on a pc. Maybe it's just me...it is a cool laptop otherwise but stuff running on Rosetta (not cs3) is even more painfully slow. Hopefully the new OS will be more efficent. Just my 2 cents..
- Cptn_Uncanny0
That's interesting, all the info I've heard about macs comes from mac fanatics. I'm actually considering switching because I need a new computer... serious trouble with all the updates and my machine is crawling... Which I don't get because I've got an Intel Pentium, 3 gigs memory...
After all I hear about Vista I'm not to sure if I want to go down that road again. Although I have a feeling I'll probably stick to PC.
- blaw0
i'm running cs3 on vista with not a complaint to share.
- Meeklo0
why wouldn't adobe answer such a simple question, should be the real question...
- Jurre0
not all is bad on mac, but its fanatics keep me away from it for a long time :-) I was convinced to switch when apple came out with dual intel and the new flash player is actually quite fast on a mac (a couple of iterations ago it was terrible). Just be prepared to adjust to the thing, it won't adjust to you like a pc can. My mind may have been warped into pc like thinking but i find mac os finder much more cumbersome than windows explorer (xp) - for example all folder are inbetween files and never on top as i was used to - this makes for messy browsing i find. Running many programs at the same time causes more trouble quickly, and all microsoft programs like excel, entourage (outlook for mac) and word run like shite and slow the whole thing down so much that i cannot even run other programs at the same time comfortably. I was ued to running all adobe stuff + all microsoft stuff + 20+ IE windows at the same time - you can forget about that. I am more focussed now though :-) These issues will probably be solved when everything runs natively on intel, but i switched too early and it annoys me that my most expensive computer ever, might look better, but does not perform as well as a quite old 800 euro pc (compared to a 2700 euro mac). I want to love it, but now it is a love - hate relationship. And damn do i like to tell mac fanatics about it's shortcomings :-)
- acescence0
> all folder are inbetween files and never on top as i was used to - this makes for messy browsing i find
sort the window by kind instead of name
- Soler0
Jurre, I have CS3 on my powerbook 2.4 ghz, but I have 4gb RAm and it runs great. 2 gb was a joke. I think 3 is still to little, thats your prob.
- Jurre0
Yeah i know ram is even more important on a mac. And regarding the folder structure - if you sort it that way it is not alphabetical anymore i thought. Now i just but spaces or underscores before every folder name. I've been using Pathfinder instead of finder and it seems a lot more flexible, it even previews flash and html content. I still haven't found an image browser that is as fast as ASCDSEE on a pc (the mac version is slow). I know it probably comes down to adjusting and finding the right software but still i have problems adjusting - but i am stubborn. Still the thing is not close to as fast as i hoped it would be (mainly rosetta issues i guess). Love the design though, now i am sitting in a bar in Amsterdam and the keys light up. Yippie! :-)
- Cptn_Uncanny0
So Vista is not that bad? I've heard it was next to impossible to install stuff on it, and its a monster of a memory/system hog. Is that so? If I got something with Vista would that be a drastic switch? I've been told you can't run anything on it... or I've just been around too many Mac fanatics. :)
Thanks for the replies, now I'm glad I didn't abandon the pc.
- doctor_shim0
If you got your important applications running in Vista, congratulations -- stick with it. Do not move elsewhere; I mean that.
My software philosophy is that if your happy, don't move. Software is written so terribly today, it's just sad, especially with the kind of heavy-duty cheap-as-shit hardware we have today. If something works, you are a lucky, lucky bastard. Do not switch until you are loosing hair.
If you're unhappy, look elsewhere, look closely, and look fast. I hate Windows. I do not own a Apple computer, but I almost feel like a fan. Unix (love Unix, tried OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD; loved them all), nicely designed hardware, people who care more than Hewlett-Packard or Dell about quality, no bloat ware, the list goes on. I'm buying myself a Macbook in the future. Only an act of some god or a really, really good argument could deter me from that goal.
I used a Dell notebook before. I won't do that again. I'm a software developer, so my tasks don't require a lot of video hardware, and I see plenty of geeky programmer brethren happy with their Macs. If I can get the stability of FreeBSD and the usability of a designed-with-care user interface, I'm sold.
For Cpt. Uncanny, I recommend that if they are unhappy with Window XPs, give Vista a whirl. But, being a computer nerd I have to remind Uncanny that:
1. A lot of stupid, stupid, stupid Windows XP crap has been carried over to Vista.
http://www.thepcspy.com/blog/3_m…
2. The best features in Vista have never appeared.
3. It fell prey to an ancient BIOS virus!
http://www.aoaforums.com/frontpa…
4. It's bad enough that Microsoft is offering a 'downgrade' CD.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/v…Uncanny, if you want to try Vista, go for it. If it breaks, run, and don't look back. If it works, hug it, cuddle it, and cherish your new, functioning mucho machine.
Same goes for Apple computers.
Now excuse me while I go and play around with some program called 'End Task' that keeps wanting my attention...