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Weblog:   Switch to MacTel: Easy or Not?
Subject:   Adobe's complaining about *this*?
Date:   2005-09-03 23:43:04
From:   Pip
Compared to some of the weird ports that Adobe has done over the years, that they are complaining about having a good 1-2 years to move to a new processor on a very abstracted OS just doesn't make sense. Adobe used to make Photoshop (v2.5 and 3) and Illustrator for SGI IRIX on MIPS! A totally different CPU, on a very different OS. Plus, Photoshop for Windows was in its infancy at that stage too. Also, as I remember, Adobe ported Photoshop over to Rhapsody's Yellow Box (which became Cocoa) back when Apple was pushing it as the client OS of the near future. That was really just a keynote showoff, but I remember that it took weeks to do--nothing minor. Now, Adobe has lots of time to migrate to a new processor that they already support on another OS. CS2 will work on the MacTels...not great, but it'll work. They've got plenty of time and plenty of in-house experience. Make it happen.