As you know I am saving up for the new iMac. I am a part time graphic designer and use Adobe Creative Suite 5. It's not worth my while subscibing to Adobe's CS.
Because CS5 is older than the new silicone Macs, can the suite be installed and used on the new iMac please?
If so, what is the process?
oneacarp wrote:
Yes, it is possible to install Adobe InDesign CS5 on a new iMac, but you may encounter compatibility issues due to the age of the software and the hardware it's running on. You may need to troubleshoot any errors that arise during installation or usage.
No. It's not, actually.
Affinity is the answer.
If you are allergic to Adobe's subscription (rental) model, you might want to see if the Affinity applications (Photo, Designer, Publisher) would work for you. An Affinity V2 Universal License that gives you access to all three of the applications, on all three platforms (macOS, Windows, iPad), is $165 – sometimes less, when they have sales.
For photo editing, there is also the free GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).
Ian Butterfield wrote:
Also, can my very trusty old Mac Pro connect to the new iMac to 'use' the monitor part?
No.
Target Display mode was deprecated long ago. There is no video input port on a new Mac.
Ian Butterfield wrote:
After a little research, some chap has come up with this:-
https://ansonliu.com/2021/10/keep-using-adobe-cs-on-a-newer-mac/
Would that suffice?
That won't work.
All of the versions of macOS from Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) through macOS 10.15 (Catalina) are Intel-only. Apple Silicon Macs use a different type of machine code, based on the ARM instruction set. Thus you can't run any of those old versions of macOS in virtual machines on Apple Silicon Macs.
I don't know if anyone has found a way to run those old versions of macOS in emulation – but I'm pretty sure that there are currently no emulators that work well enough to be anywhere close to suitable for real work.
Thank you for all your contributions to answering my very frustrating question.
I need to keep up with my Adobe skills, so it looks like I will have to continue running my trusty old Mac pro seperate to my new iMac (when I finally save and pay for it).
WOW! Thank you for your detailed reply Kurt Lang, but I think you need to address your writing manner!
Absolutely no need for the aggression towards Oneacarp.
Because they said it was possible, it is only fair to ask for their reasons why. For me, it would be very rude just to ignore them.
I thank ALL the members who have commented with this discussion, but don't appreciate a cocky 'they don't know what they are talking about', attitudes. No need for it.
I am a decent and fair chap. I am also aware that not all members answer straight away, due to other commitments, so I have given Oneacarp time to answer.
If, after a period of time, he doesn't answer with a decent reply, then I will find his comment 'unhelpful'.
With this knowledge in mind and everyone else's, it is pretty clear I will have to keep running my Mac Pro with CS5 along side my new iMac, when I managed to save up enough to purchase it. It's gonna have to be soon as the Mac Pro is struggling on various websites. Sad times as it has been a very loyal workhorse.
Thank you for ALL your contributions.
I might have another suggestion, but I have to finish some testing tomorrow for what I started in the late afternoon.
Somehow, some way, people have gotten all kinds of OS X and macOS versions to run in UTM. All without, apparently, a Mac BIOS. Since I have legal disks for OS 9 and Snow Leopard Server, I downloaded pre-built virtual machines to see how well they run. Saves me the trouble of trying to install them myself, which isn't easy.
I have a feeling SL Server isn't going to be very fast. Probably about the same as my Win XP image. And I think that OS is too old for CS5.
Haven't found any later Intel versions of macOS for UTM already built. Big Sur or Sierra would be a better fit for CS5, if they exist.
Kurt Lang wrote:
Haven't found any later Intel versions of macOS for UTM already built. Big Sur or Sierra would be a better fit for CS5, if they exist.
I don't think Big Sur would be a good fit for CS5 – as Big Sur is incompatible with 32-bit application code. Were you, perhaps, intending to refer to some other pre-Catalina version of macOS?
For what it's worth, I'll add that CS6 also works fine on High Sierra. But it's iffy on Mojave; and definitely not on Catalina or later.
Yup, it would be no problem in High Sierra since that still had full 32 bit support. As mentioned earlier I had the CS6 Master Collection running in Mojave, but it was a bit of a nuisance to get everything running.
Catalina and later are impossible since there is no 32 bit support.
Allergic? Offensive thank you. Being a 1 parent Daddy and the huge hike in bills, I simply can't afford to pay for Adobe.
After a little research, some chap has come up with this:-
https://ansonliu.com/2021/10/keep-using-adobe-cs-on-a-newer-mac/
Would that suffice?
Also, can my very trusty old Mac Pro connect to the new iMac to 'use' the monitor part?
Thank you oneacarp.
It appears you are the only one who think CS5 will run on the new iMac. So please can you qualify how it ould work please?
My Mac Pro happily uses CS5 via High Sierra.
Can I install my Adobe inDesign CS5 on the new iMac
