Bitmap Frogs said:
Funny you mention adobe and CS4, considering how there is a 64bit version for windows and it ain't for mac. If you are curious it's because adobe didn't feel like rewriting everything in cocoa. I agree Final Cut is a pretty unique suite, but... Avid has a windows native version (it's still the "main" version and Avid is the biggest name in the industry). Mystika runs only on linux. So do the solutions from Assimilate. As stated, Autodesk only makes its products available for pc and linux - and while the final cut suite has a color grading application it pales compared with the tools from Autodesk. Etc... It's interesting that CS4 for windows is giving you so much trouble. Is it the 32 or 64 bit version? Genuinely curious there... did they release it buggy? Anyways I'm rather pro-mac but I do think one is no longer bound to it for certain applications. And the reverse is true as well, Office is finally truely mac-native (it used to run behind an emulator layer) and everyday as Apple's marketshare grows (almost at 10% at the moment) so grows the number of developers who decide to develop mac versions of their applications. |
It's not me personally that's had the trouble but another senior engineer at our company. It's running on Vista x64 and it appears that the CS4 64bit has issues, but if you run the 32bit version on the 64bit OS then it seems to be ok. I may be wrong though as I've only heard about the issues when he's tearing his hair out. It also doesn't seem to like redirected My Documents either but I don't think that's CS4 specific just an Adobe thing, and an AutoDesk thing too.
I think the main reason that so many of these industries stay Mac focused is because that's what they all learn on when they take classes.
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