[heggaton]

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Relax, why start freaking out in a public forum? Adobe has always offered a free upgrade to folks who have purchased within a specific timeframe. Why don't you contact Adobe and get some speciifics before you make rash and unfounded assumptions. Geez.

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As another poster pointed out, the "assumptions" are not unfounded. Adobe (and Apple) has been consistent with only allowing free upgrades after a product has been announced.
There was no "freak out" if you were capable of determining disappointment you would have realised that's exactly what it is. "Geez."

[mixylplik3]

Macromedia seems to have all but forgotten Dreamweaver, might be time to check out GoLive again.

[Frumius]

Dang, I guess it was just a rumor about Photoshop's upcoming 64-bit capabilities. I'm not really clear on what 64-bit awareness would do for Photoshop, but I understood it would increase the amount of RAM it could use.
The article (First Look: Photoshop CS2) does say this: "High-capacity RAM compatibility allows Photoshop CS 2s Power Mac G5 users to devote more than 2GB of RAM to the program."
Does this mean that 64-bit was addressed in Photoshop CS2, or did they change something else to allow it to utillize more RAM?
I didn't see at Adobe's site anything about the new RAM abilities, nor anything about 64-bit...mb because they wouldn't be talking to the Windows crowd if they touted that?

[moose_n_squirrel]

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did they change something else to allow it to utillize more RAM?

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http://photoshopnews.com/?p=134

Something in that article was interesting. The author wrote "OS X is still really only a 32 bit OS with certain 64 bit optimizations" so I went over to the Apple site and sure enough, Apple does a clever bit of hedging. At the Mac OS X page, Apple never says Tiger is a full 64-bit OS. It says Tiger has "64-bit features" in every place where 64-bit is mentioned. But they got all us Mac users to repeat "64-bit" like a mantra. I'd probably care more about this if I had a G5, but the point is it looks like "64-bit" is a mind trick by Apple marketing. It does beg the question, where are Apple's "64-bit" apps?

[Grapho]

This is not true. I bought the Adobe Designer Package that came with GoLive 4, soon after I got it, they came out with GoLive 5's announcement. I called them, they send me the upgrade at no cost. I only paid for shipping. So don't assume anything. I second the first person how said to call Adobe on this, he just might get his free upgrade.

[catmistake]

I'm only posting because I am disgusted by the whining I see and the underlying satisfaction with Adobe.
I see no monumental differneces between CS1 & CS2, certainly not any worth $800 some dollars. CS2 is more likely a ploy to further their efforts to prevent piracy and stiffle fair use, and to have the user pay for it, than to serve the end user.
Now... had they gone beyond carbonization with these updates, that would be a different story. I'm kind of dissatisfied with Adobe right now.... They stopped at carbonization! Their primary goal should be a release of Photoshop that is native to the new Mac OS environment... which would increase integration far better than any of their transparent motivations and new "integration" apps. Coinciding Photoshop as a native release, they should have a native version of Acrobat. In fact... Acrobat should have been native years ago. OS X is using display PostScript! I, for one, never use Acrobat unless I have to; I use Apple's Preview. Adobe has no excuse, yet still I see the little Classic wrist watch clock whenever I get ahead of their apps, which is invariably. They are merely riding the coat-tails of the new faster processors to parse through the junk code they've left in for God knows how many releases of their software. This is the same crap they pulled with PageMaker in the early 90's... "just leave that junk code in there... we don't have time to make these apps efficient, we just want money!"
My advice: stop the madness... as the end user, don't upgrade, and TELL Adobe to rewrite their applications from the bottom up, if necessary, to get them native in the environment that matters most! Don't sit an whine about having just purchased CS1 and now there is an expensive update... you don't need it! They haven't added any functionality, in fact, they added just a bunch of hoops for you to jump through just so you can use the software that you own and have the right to use!