Adobe Creative Suite and Windows 7

[jecraig5]

Hello All,

I have just recently became an owner of a small 3 person shop with 3 copiers/printers and two small offset presses. I have a background in prepress and last used Windows XP and CS4 products.

The shop I have bought is using Windows 2000 and Pagemaker, and one of my first tasks is going to be upgrading the prepress workstation and other computers. What has been peoples experience with using Windows 7? Is the networking a nightmare with this version?

 

[mattbeals]

It's not bad, get the business edition so you can join a domain. Get a copy of SBS and you should be ready to go.

 

[jrhmobile]

It works fine.

It works fine.

I can also testify that CS5 and Windows 7 works just fine. Networking is easy, especially if as Matt suggested, you get the Professional or Ultimate version of Windows 7. If you're upgrading hardware, strongly consider loading the machine with more than 4GB of RAM and installing the 64-bit edition of Windows 7.

Not only will you get the most shelf life out or your installs if you go to 64-bit systems now, but you'll see real performance gains running Photoshop now and other graphics applications well into the future. I'm running 8GB on both my Windows laptops (one using an Intel Core 2 Duo chip; the other using Intel's i7 processor), and Photoshop 64-bit performance is impressive enough that you'll appreciate the time saved in a busy production shop.

 

[JayDA]

We're running CS5 and 64 bit Windows 7 without a hitch, on an i7 based desktop with 4 gigs of RAM, and it's smooth sailing so far. You'll probably want more RAM if you're a heavy photoshop user, but this box has been fine for us so far. That said, I prefer it on Mac, it just feels RIGHT to me for some reason...but I could live with it no problem if I had to.

 

[Laurens]

+1 for CS running fine on Windows 7. I am mainly using InDesign CS4 and Photoshop CS5.

 

[jecraig5]

Thanks! A follow up question is how does the Windows 7 work with networking. There are several older computers using windows 2000k. Is there going to be network problems having the mix of old and new operating systems on the same network? It is a workgroup based network, not a server based.

 

[Sev]

Thanks! A follow up question is how does the Windows 7 work with networking. There are several older computers using windows 2000k. Is there going to be network problems having the mix of old and new operating systems on the same network? It is a workgroup based network, not a server based.

I dont have Win7 yet (at work or at home) but at home I have had no problems networking Win2K with Vista, and XP, and Leopard, Tiger, and Linux Ubuntu. All of the boxes talk to each other, they just wont talk to me

-Sev