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Im currently looking to either buying the affinity suite or starting up a private Creative Cloud account from adobe this fall when my previous student access to both will run out. The pricing for affinity is what has me leaning towards affinity over adobe. I also do not have any need for the extensive list of other programs that adobe features. My biggest concern before deciding however, is do i have to buy affinity for both mac and windows to use it on both or does purchasing for one OS give you access to download it on both?

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Hello @xomandoe

First question is yes. You must pay for each system architecture. But you can use them, If you use as private at many mashines per system architecture. 

Second: No. Only major updates to next level versions like 2.x, 3.x have to buy it again.

MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD 
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB  | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.3194)

Affinity Suite V 2.5.7 & Beta 2.6 (latest)
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You are welcome.

MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD 
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB  | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.3194)

Affinity Suite V 2.5.7 & Beta 2.6 (latest)
Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF

Ferengi Acquisition Rule No. 49: “A deal is a deal is a deal.”

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Hi Komatos,

Could I ask a quick follow up question(s) please...

1.) If I buy Affinity on the Mac I also have to buy the iPad app seperately is that the case or will my Apple ID cover me for both?

2.) And do you think the software works best on a Mac or a PC? 

 

Much appreciated,

 

Hadrian

 

 

 

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11 minutes ago, Hadrian said:

1.) If I buy Affinity on the Mac I also have to buy the iPad app seperately is that the case or will my Apple ID cover me for both?

No, you will have to buy separate licences for each platform, Mac and iPad.

11 minutes ago, Hadrian said:

And do you think the software works best on a Mac or a PC? 

That depends on who you ask. A Mac user will tell you that Mac is best. A PC user will tell you that a PC is best. I have never used a Mac, so I cannot really advise.

John

Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo).

CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB  DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

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5 minutes ago, John Rostron said:

No, you will have to buy separate licences for ewach platform, Mac and iPad.

That depends on who you ask. A Mac user will tell you that Mac is best. A PC user will tell you that a PC is best. I have never used a Mac, so I cannot really advise.

John

Fair point! I'm used to a PC but am buying a Macbook this week for work on my apps. Just trying to figure out which would have the least painful learning curve!

 

Thanks John! 

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@Hadrian

As I said, I have never laid finger on a Mac. I would guess that the learning curve would be on getting used to the general differences between a Mac and a PC rather than any differences in the Affinity implementations.

John

Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo).

CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB  DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

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7 minutes ago, Hadrian said:

Fair point! I'm used to a PC but am buying a Macbook this week for work on my apps. Just trying to figure out which would have the least painful learning curve!

 

Thanks John! 

If you've never had contact with a Mac or Linux OS, then you'll have a higher learning curve with the Mac.

And you will find some features in Affinity programs in different places than in the PC versions.

For me, the biggest disadvantage is that you can't easily swap hardware (e. g. SSD or RAM) on the newer Macbooks.

MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD 
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB  | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.3194)

Affinity Suite V 2.5.7 & Beta 2.6 (latest)
Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF

Ferengi Acquisition Rule No. 49: “A deal is a deal is a deal.”

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