Are you still running a legacy Mac (pre-Apple Silicon) and keeping 2017 alive? Or have you moved on to the new AI-powered era?
To the untrained eye, it was just a vector tool. But for designers on macOS Sierra and High Sierra? It was the turning point. adobe illustrator cc 2017 mac
Let’s take a trip down memory lane. Before the cloud had all the features, before the generative AI boom, and before the M-series Macs changed everything—there was . Are you still running a legacy Mac (pre-Apple
Remember when Apple bet big on the Touch Bar? Illustrator CC 2017 was one of the first apps to fully embrace it. Suddenly, you could scrub through font weights or adjust opacity with a slider on your keyboard . It was futuristic (and yes, slightly gimmicky), but for MacBook Pro users, it felt like magic. But for designers on macOS Sierra and High Sierra
Let’s be honest: early CC versions looked blurry on Retina displays. But by 2017, Adobe rewrote the rendering engine. For the first time, Illustrator on a 5K iMac looked crisp . The UI was cleaner, the icons sharper, and the startup time on a fusion drive was actually bearable.