Adobe Says PCs Are Preferred

Father Of Free Choice writes "Abobe has picked Windows as the preferred platform for running Photoshop, After Effects, and Illustrator. I don't know how many Mac people this will upset, but given the large hold Apple has on design pros and film, this seems like a bad move on Adobe's part."

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it doesn't say anything about prefered

[512k]

it just shows graphs that say the PC is faster than the mac doing stuff in after effects..and at the end it says, "While the computers used in this study are no longer the fastest in their respective classes, the information is still valid"

Re:it doesn't say anything about prefered

[Zayin]

Adobe supports Mac OSX

"Adobe software got its start on the Macintosh computer. Today, the Macintosh platform remains important for Adobe and our customers. Since the introduction of Mac OS X, Adobe has delivered more than 13 Mac OS X native applications. This strong support of the Mac OS X platform is a demonstration of Adobe's commitment to customers on the Macintosh platform."

Image Errors

[pmlyon]

The images appear to be incorrect.

If you look at the first image, it has two times, 54 seconds and 1 minute 25 seconds. The second time is shown at well over double the length of the first, even though it only took ~50% longer. If you look closely, you will see that 1:25 got placed at 1.25, and 0:54 got placed at 0.54, hence the error.

Any of the images where the minutes are different are going to be skewed a fair amount. The error will decrease as the minute difference increases.

What's this about "preferred platform"?

[mcc]

The link doesn't say anything about Adobe preferring one platform over another, in the slightest. It's just some graphs indicating that PCs as a class perform better than macintoshes, which is something that i don't think anyone is denying at this point.

While that kind of does seem like an endorsement of the PC on adobe's part, it also is just good business sense to explain to your customers what hardware your software runs best on.

Speed at raw data-crunching is just one of the factors in which computing platform you are going to use, though if you're using AfterEffects or Photoshop or something it's going to be a much, much larger factor.

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[Golias]

I normally don't jump into the top thread with a post that doesn't relate to it. It's kind of a Karma Whore thing to do, and we all know it.

I'm making an exception this time because I can save a lot of people time before they delve into the over 500 posts of reaction to this story (at least for those who read /. in threaded mode).

Adobe is not expressing a preference for Windows PC's

The linked page is called "pcprefered.html" because it is the page which is brought up on the Adobe Digital Video Products page when you click on a link that says: "Prefer a PC for DV? See what an industry expert has to say about PC vs. Mac for video editing."

In other words, those who followed the link from The Adobe DV Products Page are indicating a preference for PC's. Since it's a page for those who prefer PC's, it's called "pcprefered.html".

There is nothing in the body of the page to indicate that Adobe has any preference for PC's, reccomends PC's over Macs, or even likes PC's. The page is a mirror of some Dell vs. Mac speed tests that some guy did. That is all.

By deep-linking to this page out of context, the person who submitted this was obviously trolling... perhaps hoping that the article would not go up until a little closer to April 1.

You may now safely ignore all of the responses below and move on with your life. No need to mod up this post, I'm already posting it at 2. Save your mod points for a real article.