Adobe CS3 finally announced, coming in April

Anyone using computers has undoubtedly heard of Adobe. Whether it’s the Acrobat PDF reader and writer software, through to Photoshop for editing digital photographs, whether in full professional or the simpler consumer versions, through to Adobe’s Flash software to create graphically lush web interfaces, chances are you’ve not only heard of Adobe, but have used at least one Adobe product on many an occasion.

Now, on March 27, Adobe has finally unleashed the announcement that their largest collection of software in their 25-year history is coming in April. It comes at a time when their software has never been more anticipated, especially by creative Mac users itching to upgrade to the ‘Universal’ versions of CS3 products such as InDesign, Photoshop and other Adobe software which will work at full speed on Intel based Macs – as well as older PowerPC models.

Intel based Mac users trying to use the older CS2 editions of Photoshop or InDesign have noticed that the performance through the Rosetta ‘translation engine’ simply wasn’t up to par, with the solution for professional users to either stick with their G5 PowerPC based Macs, or to upgrade to a quad-core Intel Mac Pro, which used the raw processing power of four cores to boost CS2’s performance to a level that is faster than CS2 running on a native PowerPC, something that was most impressive when Apple demonstrated the power of their quad-core Intel based systems – and bodes well for screamingly fast performance when the same quad-core system starts running CS3.