To run Windows Photoshop on a Mac you need to have Boot Camp or Parallels and a full version of Windows. It’s hardly a free alternative.
If one is making a transition of Photoshop from Windows to Mac, it is likely that they are moving everything. They could retire the PC and use the Windows license on the new Mac via Boot Camp.
That’s free.
No, they can’t. When you crossgrade you must sign a letter of destruction, remove the software, and destroy the media.
Bob
Bob,
But Jim isn’t referring to a crossgrade – It will still be the Windows version running under Windows, albeit on a Mac using Boot Camp.
Sorry…got a bit confused there. But if that’s the case, why buy a Mac?
Bob
But if that’s the case, why buy a Mac?
That’s an excellent question. A lot of the Mac bigots on the Photoshop forum admit to running Windows on their Mac too. It is amusing how they bought into the Mac myth only to continue to run Windows with its alleged security issues and unfriendly UI.
Prior to the advent of CS3’s universal binary, I was accused of heresy when I suggested on the Mac Photoshop forum that if one buys an Intel Mac, they would get the best Photoshop performance by running a Windows version. Rosetta PPC emulation is not ideal.
I work in both platforms for a variety of reasons. I use both Mac and PC hardware now. Future upgrades will likely be exclusively Mac since it can run multiple platforms. That is why I’d buy a Mac and still run some Windows apps on it.
And in case I confused Rob with ‘Some of us may even be using Photoshop for Mac on Windows’…
I run Mac OS9 on Windows XP and Leopard via SheepShaver emulation. I keep an old system running vintage 20th century apps to handle legacy documents that might have platform or version conversion problems.
I was toying with the idea of making my next computer a Mac, so I have been browsing in the Photoshop Mac forum for a while.
…. erm, no thanks! We don’t know when we’re well off!
I’m not sure if you were turned off by the tech issues or the people issues over there. It is a bad time for Photoshop users on Mac.
Mac just went through a transition from PPC to Intel processors. If you buy a computer today, you will want PSCS3 as it is the only version written for Intel.
Also, PSCS3 is not entirely compatible with the latest Mac OS (10.5). Just as many of us are fine with XP instead of Vista, most prefer to be running Mac OS 10.4 right now.
better check ms’ license agreement for your SPECIFIC license before you load that as a seperate os on a mac. many systems are sold with the os tied to the machine (oem). so unless you have a completely seperate retail version of the os that you purchased apart from the machine, chances are VERY good that you can’t move it around*. (even to another windows machine).
*well legally anyway…
I don’t think you can install anything but a full retail version using bootcamp.
Bob
It is a bad time for Photoshop users on Mac.
What is that supposed to mean?
Buko, you need to read past the first sentence to see the reason. 🙂
Windows users can use pretty much any version of Photoshop going back to probably 3 or 4. Mac users running Intel have to run PSCS3 to get reasonable performance with an app written specifically for their processor.
