I am considering buying an HP with the 5000+ AMD processor, but Adobe says it does not support AMD. Does anyone use Photoshop CS2 and/or Poser 6 on an AMD dual core machine?? Thanks

I have an AMD 4600+ Dual Core processor; Photoshop CS2 and Poser 6 run smooth on my system.

Mazak

PS. Poser 7 support Multi-threaded Rendering.

I have an AMD 2000 (ok, but it is an AMD). Don't have any Adobe stuff (other than reader), but Poser 3,4 and 5 run just fine. (actually 5 tends to lock up of I get too complicated, but I only have 512 meg of memory). Daz Studio works as well (just to get cheeky..;)

This gets asked from time to time in the Adobe forums  -the answer is yes, from one of the engineers on occasion.

On an AMD 5000+ processor it will work fine. I've been running all the Adobe apps on AMD-based systems for the last 5 years with hardly a glitch.

Thanks to all! I wonder why Adobe left AMD out of its specs?

I't rather odd. Adobe would be stupid to ignore that big a chunk of the market. If you look around, you find references in their docs like: "Photoshop CS2 can address approximately 3.5 GB of RAM on a Power Macintosh G5 running Mac OS X, a Windows XP 64-bit Edition system running an Intel Xeon processor with EM64T, or an AMD Athlon 64 or Opteron processor." So the do seem to acknowledge supporting AMD, and other than some fairly esoteric apps, I doubt there is much that would run on Intel but not AMD or vice versa. Maybe Adobe is getting some kind of kickback from Intel not to hilight the competition.

I'd say this more has to do with plausible deniability then anything. What's probably happening here is that all of Adobe's test machines are intel processor based, and they don't explicitly test on AMD chipsets, and although all logic says that it should work, they can always fall back to the 'it's not in the system requirments' if it does fail. Or atleast that's why the company that I work at does it.

"I'd say this more has to do with plausible deniability then anything." That sounds plausible :-) I'd think though that a company the size of Adobe would make sure they supported AMD at this point - they're not exactly a minor player any more. It's kinda like GM suggesting that their cars run only on Shell gasoline.