Be careful installing Adobe CS2 on a new Macbook (Pro) for now
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on May 30, 2006 at 11:31 AM
What a nice way to spend a Friday afternoon with my new Macbook Pro… It appears Adobe CS2 has some issues installing on OS X.4.6 and for me it was a bit worse than not installing. My pretty new Macbook Pro just decided it wouldn’t respond anymore. The mouse is fine, it moves the cursor around, but I have nothing to click on. I have no idea the cause but many fingers point to the recent Quicktime security update if you follow that thread I linked to.
The workaround is to restore OS X back to ‘out-of-the-box’ set up and NOT run the system update until AFTER you have installed CS2. That seemed to do the trick for me.
The irony is that XP pro runs nicely thanks to Bootcamp. I even installed anti-virus software and Studio 8. After spending close to a week with XP on a Macbook Pro I am oddly impressed with its speed and how it feels. Just with it wouldn’t screw up the date/time settings when going back and forth between the two OS’s. The fix is simple, set auto update date/time in both but sometimes I don’t have a net connection. Ah well.
Back to doing real work… This Macbook pro will definately speed up my workflow and finally offer a proper Windows environment for testing—although it is a much better environment than most Windows users have ;)