For those of you wating for the intel macs…

[Subspecies]

So does this mean that you can’t run AE natively on the Intel machines until Adobe releases it’s version which is like 1 year away? But it will run under “rosetta”? i wonder if tahat’s gonna be as horrible as running apps in Classic while booting in osX….those were the days….

that certainly stinks…

[Barend Onneweer]

On the other hand, how many of you are running an Intel Mac workstation today? How many customers would Adobe have for a universal binary version of AE today?

The Mac Intel workstations are still a way off. And won’t be 64-bit until end of this year. I’m just hoping that the next release of AE will be 64-bit on both platforms. Which would be a lot of work.

Seriously… Adobe probably doesn’t want to support two different Mac versions for a long time. So it seems like a good idea to support PowerPC architecture when 99% of the Mac user base are using those. Once the 64-bit MacIntel workstations hit the market in a years time or so – it seems Adobe won’t be far behind.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Barend Onneweer] “Once the 64-bit MacIntel workstations hit the market in a years time or so – it seems Adobe won’t be far behind.”

Yeah, I’m just saying that if people are looking to wait to buy Mac desktops for an Intel version of AE, it might be time to invest in that quad machine. It’ll last ya at least two years, at least.

I’m shouting out to the folks that are on the fence, who render everyday.

This a practical post, rather than a design or flame war post.

And practically, don’t forget if you have any connective guts inside your machine, you’ll have to upgrade them to PCIe.

Jeremy

[Barend Onneweer]

[JeremyG] ”
This a practical post, rather than a design or flame war post.”

Cool 🙂

I absolutely agree. If you’re in this business as a professional, and have a need for speed, the Quad G5 smokes!

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[Paul King]

I would like to see it up against the Quad Opteron.

Paul

[Danny Princz]

so would I

my “old” dual amd 2800s are much snappier running AE than any dual g5 ive used.

and the quad opteron i have used blew away a dual g5 2.5