The minimum requirements for Photoshop CS4 call for a G5 or newer Mac. I am wondering if anyone has tried installing it on a G4? I have a Quicksilver 2002 PowerMac, 933 mghtz. Does anyone know if it will run CS4 at all? Or does the installer prevent installing on a machine without the min requirements?

Yeah, I know I need a new computer, but that may be a few months away.

Elev,

I have a Quicksilver 2002 PowerMac, 933 mghtz




If it runs, even if you have the RAM, it'll be slow. Very slow. Why not wait until you pick up a new box, and save yourself some grief?

Neil

As Neil said it will probably work, but what's the point? it will be painfully slow and if you have any problems you won't get any support from Adobe.

Wait for the trial version to be available and try it on your machine.

CS4 does run on some G4 boxes.

CLICK HERE <http://www.imaging-resource.com/SOFT/CS4/CS4.HTM>

EXCERPT:

We haven't used Photoshop 10 since we installed CS4's Photoshop 11, doing
our routine work for review illustrations and news items with it. Yes,
even on our G4. It launches as quickly as 10 and every one of our plug-ins
runs without incident.

Well it might work, but Adobe must have a cut off point for support. They have chosen G5 which is quickly on its way out.

Thank you Ramon (and others). That answers my questions. I already have a box with CS4 sitting here. I plan to get a new machine, so bought it as an upgrade with an upgrade to Lightroom so I got that discount too. I'll try it and if it doesn't work I'll post here saying it doesn't.

One of the reasons I wanted to run CS4 on this machine is to stay up to date with the latest Camera RAW plug-in. Lightroom is using 4.6 since that's what CS3 has.