Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel Centrino®, Intel Xeon®, or Intel Core™ Solo/Duo (or compatible) processor. 2.5GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation). PowerPC® G4 or G5 or Intel processor (single or multicore). Of course, this update also comes with Universal Binary Intel Mac support, a new interface, and some things called "new features" that we'll also take a look at. Okay, it wasn't that bad, but Adobe knew it had issues with the older code with CS3, they've completely overhauled the drawing engine to get a much larger boost and bring an end to any nostalgia for the speedy-yet crashy-days of yore. Eventually, updates made it incrementally faster, and with version 12, it was finally zippy enough to run on a first-gen G5 without feeling like you were designing in bullet time. 
This wasn't all Adobe's fault, and there were worse culprits for sure. This first native OS X version was the poster child for reasons to wait to move to Mac OS X on older hardware, since everything was glacially slow compared to Illustrator 9 on OS 9.
Overall, the transition to Mac OS X was relatively smooth, but one of the rough periods for professional graphic designers was Illustrator 10. Price: Illustrator CS3 full version: $599 upgrade from Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CorelDraw, Freehand 9, 10, or MX: $199 ( shop for Illustrator CS3) Operating system support: Windows XP SP2, Vista Home Premium or better, Mac OS X 10.4.8
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