Adobe CS3 Upgrade
I just can’t imagine not using Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator, even as a developer. It used to be that we’d write the code and have the designers do whatever they need to do. This is no longer the case. Even the component developers must think about the user interface and at times do small graphics manipulations.
Having spent more than $1300 for Adobe Creative Suite 2, I almost died when I found out that I’d have to spend extra $500 for upgrading it to run on my MacBook Pro. I know that the previous version runs on Intel Macs, but really, even a casual user like myself could not deal with the speed.
I thought I can live limiting the use of Illustrator (fantastic for wireframing btw) and Photoshop to my PowerMac G5, but it’s getting to a point where I’m finding myself constantly inconvenienced by the lack of these software on my MacBook Pro. I will probably upgrade sometime next week, but it really really hurts.
I’m really curious how many Rails developers are living without Adobe apps.
