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Jerry.K,
I am always cool with where the MOD's think that a post belongs, and will, hopefully, do the most good.
I understand that marketing is probably really keen on getting sales of products to the greatest base, but especially with PrPro, En and AE, I think that they might be misleading some users a bit too much. As you point out, a CS5 equipment rec. can cover a lot of products, and just those three should be broken out.
My post was in response to so many angry replies, citing the "minimum specs.," and how the poster's machine met those, but would not edit. I feel their pain, just like the folk, who buy an AVCHD camera, only to find out that they need a new, stout computer, just to edit it.
I always just link to Harm's various articles (great resources, BTW) and explain that the specs. on the box might work for PS, or AI, but when one gets into PrPro and AE, things are different. Throw in RED footage, or AVCHD, and all bets are off.
Thanks for thinking here,
Hunt
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When questions on hardware specs. come up, I usually reply that one should rather ignore those, and then link to Harm's articles here. Hopefully, I catch those users, before they build/buy a system spec'ed from the side of the box.
Jerry.K does make a very good distinction - CS5 is a product line, and has many programs within it. Some will probably do fine with the published minimum specs, but some will likely not.
Though it would get a bit long, I could see something like a base minimum, with PrPro, En and AE having a footnote, "triple all specs." and then another with for AVCHD or RED (add others as is necessary), "double those specs."
From a marketing standpoint, that gets dicey, but then it really hurts for me to have to tell a user that their brand new Toshiba laptop will never edit video, especially AVCHD, smoothly, regardless of what the "minimum specs." state. I can often hear their screams of anguish all the way to Arizona. They then loose faith in Adobe, and usually want to "shoot the messenger" too.
It's akin to my auto mfgr. stating that 85 octane gasoline will run in my new car (requires 91 octane min.), but omitting that it will not run well with it, or for very long. I'd be screaming then too.
Hunt
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Todd_Kopriva wrote:
Regarding the sentiment that we need to "get real" about the system requirements:
I think that that message is getting through. I'd even say that it got most of the way through for CS5, and you can see the evidence in many places (just not all) where system requirements are discussed.
Take for example this page, which gives different requirements for different levels of performance:
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/performance/
I may have broken that down differently myself, but I hope that you can see that it's a step in the right direction.
Hi Todd,
Please look at the following ad by Dell for its Precision workstations.
The ad states:
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The default configuraiton the above ad refers to the following computer. "Event Videographer Offer"
It comes with 1 GB ram, 256MB ATI FireMV® 2260, 2MON, 2 DP w/ 1 DP to DVI Adapter, ONE 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s with NCQ and 8MB DataBurst Cache™, etc.
Certainly it can be imporoved by "Customizing", but considering that Dell touts Adobe (and specifically Adobe CS5) as being a a system ISV-Certified partner, shouldn't Adobe require Dell to offer by a simple click of an icon, at least a minimum system that will actually run Adobe CS5 and Adobe Premiere CS5 (the above link came from a full page ad on the back cover of a Video magazine.)
Since CS5 has some very serious hardware requirements, I feel Adobe must be on the CUSTOMER's side when it comes to its partners using its Trademarked named products -- and not rely on the "good will" of the sales people who pick up the phone at its ISV-Certified hardware partners who may or may not have the knowledge (or desire) to ensure that the machine they sell will actually run Adobe CS5, and specifically Adobe Premere CS5.
Regards,Rowby.
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