Comments on: CS5 to be announced April 12

By: Steve Beydler

Steve Beydler — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:56:54 +0000

Thanks for the info. After posting this I continued to search and this confirms the best “guess” of most other site’s posters.

By: ProDesignTools

ProDesignTools — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:18:55 +0000

Hi Steve, Adobe has not officially announced CS5 shipping dates yet, so there is no formal answer. But we’ve looked at this six ways to Sunday on our blog over the months, and our current best estimate is end of April or beginning of May for English in North America. Most recently we’ve also looked at Adobe’s “grace period” free upgrade policy for those who buy CS4 now before CS5 is released, which is another popular question right now.

By: Steve Beydler

Steve Beydler — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:19:58 +0000

Could someone tell me when the actual shipping date is going to be? We are in line for an auto upgrade (purchased with seat license) and are having trouble finding the actual date. Thanks.

By: Ronny Karam

Ronny Karam — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:40:20 +0000

Yeah we’re all happy and excited about Adobe’s new toys. But what about the prices?
It’s the same sh*t with every release: IT’S HALF THE PRICE IN THE USA… WHY?!@#$%^&*
Europe:
Creative Suite 5 Master Collection – 3,706.40 euro
USA:
Creative Suite 5 Master Collection – $2,599.00
And Adobe wonders why people are using cracked versions. Who the heck is gonna pay ~ $5,200 every 18 months to benefit from the new features added…?

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:34:20 +0000

Oh gosh I hope it ships soon afterwards. I graduate on May 14th, and I really want to get CS5 student edition from Adobe. I think I read it is releasing April 21, but I don’t know how accurate that could be.

By: Kat S

Kat S — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:38:14 +0000

I just got CS4 and am overhwelmed, and overjoyed all the same. Adobe PhotoShop rocks!

By: peer-eric

peer-eric — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:44:34 +0000

well,
sometimes it can be!
I have one illustrator-project for use
as a pattern-print on a fly-eye-lense,
which i can´t work on any more.
if i copy/paste one more element, my mac dies a slow death…

By: Jeffrey Bernstein

Jeffrey Bernstein — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:08:03 +0000

And if it's speed you want, then it's you'll get!!!! http://blogs.adobe.com/keyframes/2010/04/faster.html But really, is Illustrator slow?

By: tom peace

tom peace — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:49:21 +0000

I am using CS4 and in CS5 I want Premier, PhotoShop, After Effects and Illustrator to make full use of a 64 bit operating system like Win 7. My machines are multi-processors, and more than 16 gigs of Ram. Currently renders take way too much time under 32 bit OS. Time is money and that is where improvements really need to be made. More bells and whistles are nice, but CS4 is pretty darned good. I need SPEED!

By: peer-eric

peer-eric — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:39:40 +0000

thanks for the fast reply!
seems like you got yourself one
sure purchase!

By: Phil Brown

Phil Brown — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:03:14 +0000

What a ridiculous statement.
No one is forcing you to ugprade or to spend money. If the price is too high, you won’t pay it. End of story.
No one is raping anyone, no force is involved. It’s pathetic abusing a word like that, weakening it’s real meaning by using it to describe things not even remotely as horrible. To create an inference that John or Adobe are doing such things is about as low as it gets.

By: Jeffrey Tranberry

Jeffrey Tranberry — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:27:53 +0000

Per Eric, the next version of Photoshop for Macintosh will be 64-bit. You will be able to address as much RAM as your Mac will hold. I posted this a while back after we first got the 64bit up and running: http://bit.ly/zlunm

By: Rob Fahrni

Rob Fahrni — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:19:52 +0000

Another thing along the lines of “You just shipped a year ago.” Just because Adobe is shipping a new version doesn’t mean you have to upgrade now, or at all for that matter. They’re not holding a gun to your head.
Breathe in, breathe out, repeat.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:44:59 +0000

First, most of us do not have an endless supply of money as you seem to and second most of us do not wish to rape our customers for their money just so we can do endless upgrades.
That being said, if the new version has enough significant upgrades to be more useful and more productive, then it will be worth finding the money somehow to upgrade, but if (like many “upgrades” of software (not necessarily Adobe)) the changes from one version to the next are just a few tricks and/or small UI changes, then a lot of small business owners and/or individuals cannot afford a full upgrade every 18 months.
Sorry that we are not all rich like you and sorry if that seems to bother you.
[That doesn't bother me. You calling me a rapist does. Thanks very much. --J.]

By: peer-eric

peer-eric — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:49:30 +0000

I can´t wait 2 get some real informations!
but maybe you could tease just one tiny detail!
I´m currently working with CS4 on snowleopard,
as I am in the lenticular-imaging-business, I would like to know if the CS5-photoshop will be able to manage/use more ram than the previous one. as I´m facing constant problems with that issue!
another problem, this time with InDesign CS4, is writing large pdf-files
with resolutions of 2400 dpi or higher.
any chance there will be improvements in this area?!
I´m looking forward to your reply.