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Adobe Announces Photoshop CS3 Beta
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PS Upgrades
I recently looked into the issue of how far back one can upgrade. Despite Adobe's high price of its software, they have been pretty generous with the upgrades. My company just upgraded someone who had Photoshop 5.5 to Photoshop CS2.
In response to PS CS3, it asked for a previous license, and I tried two different codes (one for CS2 Standard Suite and another for PS CS2) and neither one worked. At least I can try the demo for now, I suppose.
But that install took forever! Man, that was dog slow. And it takes up 1.6 GB of space with all of the extras it adds on, as well (Bridge, stock photos, etc.). With newer computers, probably not something to worry about so much, but my computer is running out of space, so this is a concern. But PS 7 is still doing the job for what I need, but I suspect that Adobe will sell many, many copies of CS3, if only so people can run it on their new Intel Macs. I know that the driving force for PS7 for me was for the native OS X compatibility.
I recently looked into the issue of how far back one can upgrade. Despite Adobe's high price of its software, they have been pretty generous with the upgrades. My company just upgraded someone who had Photoshop 5.5 to Photoshop CS2.
In response to PS CS3, it asked for a previous license, and I tried two different codes (one for CS2 Standard Suite and another for PS CS2) and neither one worked. At least I can try the demo for now, I suppose.
But that install took forever! Man, that was dog slow. And it takes up 1.6 GB of space with all of the extras it adds on, as well (Bridge, stock photos, etc.). With newer computers, probably not something to worry about so much, but my computer is running out of space, so this is a concern. But PS 7 is still doing the job for what I need, but I suspect that Adobe will sell many, many copies of CS3, if only so people can run it on their new Intel Macs. I know that the driving force for PS7 for me was for the native OS X compatibility.
... you have to activate cs3 online or over the phone in order to use the full version that doesnt expire in 2 days.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopcs3/
As a software engineer, I could come up with several other assumptions....
I guess you could get a Dell mini-tower with 8 cores, and test your assumption with the Windows Vista version of CS3....
As a software engineer, I could come up with several other assumptions....
I guess you could get a Dell mini-tower with 8 cores, and test your assumption with the Windows Vista version of CS3....
That a way to skewer me for trying to be an optimist.
Or I could just drop 2 kentsfields in my MacPro.
Besides, of all software companies, I think Adobe realizes that processors aren't getting any faster, they are growing horizontally in their ability to process multiple threads. If Adobe wants to remain competitive performance wise, they have no choice but to make applications work well with parallel cores.
No, but you could try two Clovertowns...
True, but exploiting parallelism is a hard problem.
I'm sure that there are filters in CS3 that only keep one or two CPUs busy, or even fewer.
