It seems that the analysts are in “obvious mode” again, with reports flowing from multiple sources that Mac sales will in fact, increase, with the release of Adobe Creative Suite 3. Yes, after performing surveys and ogling data with an air of concupiscence in ways that only analysts can, we can now benefit from their findings.
With Adobe set to announce the official CS3 line on March 27, “Mac-Intel” owners are getting closer to the day when they can run the most significant professional applications ever created for the Mac platform. Until that day, anybody who relies on Adobe’s Creative Suite (read: business users) is forced to hold off on any new hardware purchases from Apple, lest they face the wrath of Rosetta-rendering, which is what I have dubbed the sting of running Photoshop CS2 on an Intel system.
So good days are ahead for Apple. So says the analysts, after their analytical analysis of the analyzable, and so says any half wit with half a mind to put towards these things.
I can't wait for March 27th.
At my newsroom, half of us have Intel iMacs, and the other half, the design and photo intensive jobs, stuck with PowerMac G5s because CS2 runs so slow with Rosetta. Honestly, it's not the 3 in the CS3 I'm happy about, it's just the fact that it'll be Intel native and we can upgrade all the hardware in the newsroom.