With 8-core Intel Macs, and the Universal Binary version of Adobe’s Creative Suite hitting the market, my guess is the impact on Apple of the Leopard slip won’t be big. The real pent-up demand is for Adobe’s heavy-lifting graphics apps on Intel’s multi-core technology, shipping in the latest Mac towers. Mac OS X 10.4.9 is mature and stable, and most pros don’t grab the dot-zero release of a new OS anyway: people with work to get out wait until a consensus-stable dot rev appears (and that’s not unlikely to take 6 months or more). Creative pros, much valued by Apple for their high-margin workstation purchases will probably not be delaying much… they can always upgrade in October…
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