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I have to wonder what OS your are running Illustrator on too! Historically, I have had very few freeze ups with Illustrator on my Mac and I am only running 4 gigs of RAM. Since I upgraded to CS2 at home I have had more "issues" with Photoshop than Illustrator. So I hope to upgrade, soon myself...but i'm not to excited about using CS5!
I also rarely if ever get a low memory warning...at home. But I have got them running CS5 on a PC at work. They just added a biy more RAM and that seemed to help a bit.
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I use the Adobe CS3.3 Master Collection for Mac- I have had Illustrator crash on me a couple of times, but never on a consistant basis. No problems with any of the other programs in the suite, though. I had a few issues with an earlier CS2, but I worked around them.
I bought CS3.3 for a substantial discount right after CS4 was released. I mainly use Illustrator, PS, Flash and InDesign- but there are some other useful programs in the Master Collection.
I use the CorelDRAW X3 suite on the Dell- running on a pretty stable XP- I have used it for years and it has been really solid, except for the couple of times I had computer memory issues- then I started getting a bunch of the crashes like mentioned above.
I really like the way DRAW, PAINT, TRACE all work together seamlessly- a process that I use daily in T-shirt art.
I also loaded it on my MacBook- through Parallels- and it worked very well on the Mac
-------------------- Michael Clanton Clanton Graphics/ Blackberry 19 Studio 1933 Blackberry Conway AR 72034 501-505-6794 clantongraphics@yahoo.com Posts: 1736 | From: Conway Arkansas | Registered: Oct 2001
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Corel X3 wasn't designed specifically to work with Windows 7. Corel X5 was. Instead of upgrading to X5, create a second partition on your drive and install XP onto it, the operating system it WAS designed for. That should clean up instability issues.
Dual Boot.
Hope this helps... Rapid
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X3 runs perfect on all my win 7 machines. The office, the lappy, the shop. I have never heard much of a problem with X3 on any win 7 machine until I read about it here.
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Am currently trying out a trial corel X5 on mac parallels win 7 pro, 8 gig ram. Runs a little jittery, (???) but no failures so far. Wonderful features though, I'm LOVING it!
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I use CS3 on both of my Macs with no issues either PhotoShop or Illustrator.
I can hardly wait to try it out on the new hotrod Mac laptop that arrives next week!
-grampa dan
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