CS3 Beta coming soon

http://www.thinksecret​.com …0612photoshopcs​3beta.html

From www.thinksecret.com, a well-known thorn in Apple's side

Adobe Photoshop CS3 public beta due soon

By Ryan Katz, Senior Editor
December 11, 2006 - Adobe is planning to release a public beta of Adobe Photoshop CS3 in the near future—possibly by week's end—sources report. The surprise development means both Mac and PC Photoshop users will be able to test the application's new features some months before its final release. Think Secret recently disclosed a number of those upcoming details in a recent report.
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Sources say that satiating owners of Intel-based Macs was one of the primary reasons driving Adobe to release the public beta. Photoshop CS2 is a PowerPC-native application that must run under Rosetta on Intel-based Macs, significantly curtailing performance. Apple has previously cited the lack of Universal Binary applications from Adobe, optimized both for Intel and PowerPC chips, as a contributing factor to lower Mac Pro system sales.

Yaayyyy!

Hopefully Adobe will supply CS3 with a dongle so it can't be hacked very easy. If everbody has to buy a legit copy of CS3 then it's reasonable to expect the price to drop or atleast stay the same.

yup, final release in spring of 07