Re: Mac Power PC's - 4 years old and outdated

Snit <use...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Tim Adams wrote:
 -hh <recscuba_goo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[technology marches on]
True, but its a moot point for professional grade applications, particularly
since the big percentage changes were back in the 1990s (25MHz to 33MHz =
33% increase):  spending $5K for new hardware every 2 years to improve the
productivity of an employee who costs six figures is money well spent..

It's also quite probable that individuals running the older versions will
need very few, if any, of the new features of any new version. All of the
packages in the creative suite are quite feature complete and mature at this
point, with only (typically) minor tweeks being made to them.

Their old version will continue to run just fine and they can continue using
it, on their older hardware for years to come.

I know *I* use a number of the features in the CS4 suite that were not in
the CS3 suite. Heck, right now I am in the middle of completely re-working
my Dreamweaver class...

For a teaching class = employment. As such, the upgrade costs are a
deductible business expense.




Heck, just off the top of my head, from Dreamweaver, some things that
benefit myself and my students:

* No more .style silliness (autogenerated styles).  Thank goodness!
* Related files
* Spry HTML Data sets
* In Context editing

That does not count the new UI and the bug fixes / clean up of some poorly
done stuff.  Big difference.

Again, since Dreamweaver is more typically a tool typically not used
by a hobbyist for his personal website, but is used by businesses,
these are 'productivity enhancers' that will have a clear ROI for
justifying upgrade costs.


For Photoshop:
* Smooth Zooming and rotating
* Content aware scaling (very cool)
* Better integration with Dreamweaver
* Better dodge and burn
* Color sample from all layers (big bonus!)

I jumped from CS2 to CS4 and didn't really notice these as huge
differences, although that obviously depends upon one's individual
workflows. It was a bigger deal for me that TWAIN is no longer
supported by default.


I am sure, for both programs, there is more.  

Sure, but the basic point Tim was making was that of "Diminishing
Returns" when the baseline product is relatively mature. For
Photoshop, there's only so many improvements that one can make to what
is essentially the manipulation of how a two dimensional image is
perceived.


-hh
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