WPR Mac Help

On Today’s show, Mike had asked about compatibility of programs with Apple’s new “Leopard” operating system, also known as Mac OS X 10.5. Specifically, Mike was wondering about Adobe’s Creative Suite 3.

Most of Adobe CS 3 is compatible with Leopard now. Acrobat still needs an update, which they say should be ready next month  (January, 2008).  Their video applications are being updated a bit later than that. You can get more information right from the horse’s mouth here.

Adobe says that older version of their Creative Suite may work OK, but they are not testing nor supporting them.

If you’re a Extnesis Suitcase user, you’ll need at least Suitcase X1 (11) or newer for the Adobe CS 3 applications. Suitcase Fusion is technically version 12.

Apple has been pretty quite about the hardware requirements for their upcoming OS X release, version 10.5 “Leopard”.   As the release of this new cat draws near, this question is becoming more and more pressing.

Pre-release builds are now only running on systems with a G4 going 867 Mhz or faster.  I think it’s fairly likely, given how close these builds are to the final product, that the 867 Mhz bar will the minimum.  Previously, the minimum had been an 800 Mhz G4.

Why the big deal over 67 Mhz?  Because it cuts out a number of Titanium PowerBook G4’s and the original iMac G4 “Desk Lamp”.