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09:39 AAPL Apple Computer: Public beta of Adobe Creative Suite 3 may boost Mac sales - AppleInsider (88.28 +0.02) -Update-

AppleInsider reports sales of Apple Computer's professional Mac line could receive a shot in the arm later this month if Adobe Systems (ADBE) proceeds with plans to release an early public beta of its Creative Suite 3.0 software bundle.

Thus far, graphics professionals have been slow to adopt the Intel-based Mac Pro workstations introduced by Apple this summer -- a trend which both Apple and industry analysts have attributed to the lack of an Intel native version of Creative Suite for the Mac OS X operating system.

For its part, Adobe has gone on record in stating that native Intel Mac support of its most popular graphics applications, such as Photoshop and Illustrator, will have to wait until the Spring 2007 release of Creative Suite 3.