TBH, I really, truly, can't understand just WTF you're using Photoshop to create a CV! It makes no sense to me, a CV is just a text document that shouldn't run to more than two sides of A4. You just need the free text editor App for that.
how unimaginative. If you haven't got an infographic CV, you're not trying hard enough:
My 2010 iMac (with 8GB RAM) is not happy running Adobe Lightroom at the same time as iPhoto. Sliders/adjustments have a small delay which is very irritating when developing images; sometimes, though rarely, it results in the spinning beachball. Quit iPhoto and it runs perfectly.
Some/most of these have probably been answered before, but I can type out quicker than I can read all of the above, so here goes... (P.S. Seasoned Mac user, and I sell and fix them as a day job)...
1. Most external devices used to come formatted as FAT32, which is readable by both Macs and Windows PC's. But FAT32 limits a single file size to 4GB, so in this day and age of HD video and large file sizes, external drive makers have been switching back to NTFS (Windows format) and HFS+ (Mac format) separately, so not that many drives work on both these days out of the box unless you reformat them. Also, some external drives are shipping with USB3.0 compatibility these days, and Macs which don't support USB3.0 can have trouble recognising a USB3.0 drive even though it should just work as USB2.0 speed anyway when plugged into a USB2.0 socket. It's VERY odd that in this day and age, when both Apple and Microsoft have really worked together to make Macs more easily integrated into a traditional Windows based environment, it's the external Hard Drive makers that are creating the problems right now!
2. Empty the recycle bin, when your external device is still connected.
3. I've been using Macs for about 6 years now, and recently just bought myself a brand new 13" MacBook Pro with 2.7GHz i7 processor running 10.7 Lion. I've been on Mac since the early days of 10.4, and run everything inbetween too. I keep getting similar issues that you describe when I've got more than one application open, and I've done a bit of reading around this too. It seems that Lion is causing the problem, and even despite the recent 10.7.3 update, it's still not all been fixed. I've always chosen to be a slow adopter of the newer OS before as I don't like to do someone's BETA testing, but given that I needed a new machine, it came with Lion on already, I went for it. Lion has some great features, but I still think there's a few bugs that need ironing out. It's only been on the market 6 months though, most OS's take 12 months or more (Windows, Mac, Linux, whatever in my experience) to become fully stable and have all their bugs ironed out. But I'd agree that in 6 weeks of my new (Very powrerful!) new machine ownership, I've seen the spinning beachball more times than in the last 6 years together I'd say!
4. Maybe similar problem to above. I don't use Safari though. Much as I like Apple, I'm not that much of a fan of Safari, and prefer both Mozilla Firefox (which I have had no issues with) and Google Chrome. Full Screen apps are nice, but do they really matter that much on a web browser? The only time I ever want full screen is for watching videos, and I can do that on youtube no bother anyway by hitting the full screen icon on there.
5. Annoying indeed, but as has been pointed out, easily fixed.
6. Easily done, when you select "Print" in Microsoft Word at least, you click the "PDF" option down the bottom of the window and away you go...
Here's a great bit of software for you, that I suggest ANY Mac owner with new enough OS (older OS's not supported I don't think) downloads and runs. I have been using it for years on Windows machines, and quite frankly it's superb, and now they've made it for Mac too...
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
Stick with it though, I can guarantee that at the moment you're just experiencing a blip, caused by both lack of familiarity with the OS, and also Apple not being quite up to speed getting Lion fully problem free just yet (IMO). Sooner than later though, you'll really begin to appreciate how much nicer to use Mac OSX is than Windows, and what it can do for you.
Any more issues, feel free to drop me an email personally if you need a (reasonably) fast response...
macrumors.com has provided the answer to pretty much any question I've had about my Mac...... it's a pretty friendly forum too
so this is what ive done so far
-ditched safari for google crhome, however some pages still sometimes just freeze, namely this website funnily enough!
-ditched iphoto for picasas own program, if anyone can recommend any others then fire away.
-run the disc utility to verify and repair any file permissions it found 40 errors and fixed them. will they all definately be fixed from doing that?
-run a disk error search on disc utility also, none were found
-fixed the automatic screen brightness adjustment
-sorted out my pdf problem but a new one has arisen, how on a mac can you reduce the file size, its a imagine heavy file therefore the file is coming out at 122mb however if i reduce the file size on the way i can find it reduces it to 600kb which is so bad you cant read the txt.
-i installed two updates that were available however i think this was just updating lion to 10.7.3 and restarted it properly which i dont often do.
thats possibly it for now.
I am using photoshop because i am an architecture student and my portfolio/c.v. is very graphic and to be honest in my opinion that is a very boring way of looking at it, i think if i was to do a c.v. applying for other types of jobs i would still make it more than just a black and white blether.
the laptop definately seems to be running better but im not 100% convinced yet, still lags on some things.
running it with photoshop closed before doing all these changes seemed to be making little difference to me.
MBOY
thankyou for taking the time to write that for me, i shall stick with it, i dont plan on selling up, however i am very temped by all these ultrabooks coming out! one question woudl be can you point me in the direction of a tutorial to set up time machine as i havent bothered to do that yet.
o also if anyone can recommend doing anything else just as general maintenance and things i should do to set up the mac then let me know
and mboy yeah i looked for that when i got the mac as was usig it on my dell and it is great, was also wanting something similar to tune up utilities for mac but not sure if its necessary?
MBOY
thankyou for taking the time to write that for me, i shall stick with it, i dont plan on selling up, however i am very temped by all these ultrabooks coming out! one question woudl be can you point me in the direction of a tutorial to set up time machine as i havent bothered to do that yet.
No problems.
The Ultrabooks are just a take on the MacBook Air, which is neater and now its running i5 and i7 processors, a lot faster than it used to be. Very worthwhile machine in its own right, and trust me on this (I've had all the latest ultrabooks side by side with the Air), it's a whole lot better built than any of the others as well as having a better OS. The Asus UX31 thing is quite nice looking and pretty fast, although hampered by Windows 7 of course, but then you look at the Toshiba and it feels like its made of cardboard it's so flimsy!
As for Time Machine, it's the easiest thing in the world to setup. Buy an external hard drive, plug it in, and your machine will automatically ask you if you want to set the drive up as the Time Machine drive. Then click yes obviously, and it does it all for you! From then on, whenever the drive is connected to your machine, it will automatically back up all your data...
-i installed two updates that were available however i think this was just updating lion to 10.7.3 and restarted it properly which i dont often do.
Yeah, some people espouse about Macs never needing to be restarted as they work so well from sleep all the time. Well, they work better than a Windows machine does from sleep, but I learnt the hard way myself too. Basically, whenever practical, shut your machine down rather than just sleep it. It will thank you for it I can promise you, and will run lots better. And install any updates ASAP.
o also if anyone can recommend doing anything else just as general maintenance and things i should do to set up the mac then let me know
Just run CCleaner once in a while, it's kinda an all in one package that previously you would have had to do several jobs independently, so it saves time and effort. And also repair the disk permissions once in a while too, otherwise your machine will definitely start to suffer.
Oh, and if you're using Photoshop much, definitely put more RAM in the machine... 8GB is about £35 these days, so really cheap!
Have you stored lots of stuff on the desktop? Finder sees each one of those as a window not an icon. This can slow things right down. Keep your desktop clear and things will speed up a bit.
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