Adobe ships Creative Suite 3, rewritten for Intel Macs

Adam Turner
Monday, 16 April 2007 22:24

Business IT - Technology

Adobe's long awaited Creative Suite 3 is now available for download, re-written to take advantage of the power of new Intel-based Macs.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium and Standard editions and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and Standard editions are available for download immediately and will be available in stores from April 23. Also available now are the new standalone versions of Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe Fireworks CS3 and Adobe Contribute CS3.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 is available for Windows XP/Vista and Mac OSX, with the Macintosh version rewritten as a universal binary, meaning it runs natively on either PowerPC- or x86 (Intel)-based Macs. The announcement is welcome news for Intel-based Mac owners running Adobe applications such as Photoshop. Until now, Photoshop users have been hampered by the fact the new Intel-based Macs rely on Apple's Rosetta software to allow the old PowerPC versions of Photoshop to run on Intel hardware - resulting in a significant performance hit.

The expanded Creative Suite 3 family also includes Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium, a complete integrated post-production solution for video and rich media professionals, and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection, which combines all of Adobe's new CS3 design and development applications in a single box. Both of these Creative Suite editions are expected to ship in the third quarter of 2007.