Comments on: Time Spent with Adobe

By: IdeaStormerJ

IdeaStormerJ — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:36:55 +0000

xpdf always works, super fast and never any updates :=)

By: veral

veral — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:58:31 +0000

one of my computers is about that old, its got about 1.0 Ghz but 756mb of ram. my only problem with it is that IE5 wont display anything nowdays.

By: TheGooch

TheGooch — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:24:37 +0000

>sophiabelle says:
>September 25, 2008 at 7:24 am
>I suggest adding an additional slice – “Time spent >breaking down language barrier at Adobe >customer service from a guy who says his name is >Roy but who clearly is really named Srini.”

ROFLMAO!

By: Pip

Pip — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:55:48 +0000

YOU FORGOT ABOUT UNINSTALLING & REINSTALLING… that’s a 10% right there.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:21:05 +0000

And then theres the countless hours spent rebuilding my Flash file when the server gets disconnected for like one second!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:34:26 +0000

In relation to the Damn PDF viewer, the very first version opened a PDF why update it? unless you have got a £500 copy of adobe Audition, which is a nice bit of kit, thats not been updated… and that works fine!

By: Scriptkittie

Scriptkittie — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:23:32 +0000

75% should be devoted to finding a keygen or serial.

By: MEH.

MEH. — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:30:20 +0000

I use Dreamweaver and Photoshop on a daily basis and never have a problem with this really. Maybe like once every few months I have to restart the program, but that’s honestly about it…and that takes like a minute tops (which I think it probably depends largely on how fast your computer is).

At the same time, I could see how annoying it’d be rushing to your photoshop because you have some new graphjam idea…only to be confronted with an update dialogue. (not really ackshullyz)

By: MEH.

MEH. — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:23:59 +0000

I think he was generalizing the reversed trend rather than specifying that it was exactly opposite.

By: AngelMax

AngelMax — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:28:01 +0000

OMG I just had this problem this morning!
Not worth the trouble.

By: Fake E. Tufte

Fake E. Tufte — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:01:47 +0000

I agree with you…except I’m on a Mac. Either way, what’s wrong with the OP’s machine.

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:36:06 +0000

On my machine it’s usually something like this:
Firefox: 30%……
I hope firefox 3.1 gets more intelligent caching algorithms. Whenever I get even remotely close to using my GB of RAM (read: half way), it’s usually Firefox at 300 MB, which is ridiculous to me. I browse a bunch, then I close everything but my gmail and my igoogle, and it just sits at 300 MB with two tabs open– seriously, what the heck.

By: Melody

Melody — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:59:31 +0000

Sorry I don’t get this. I use Adobe products all day long (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and NEVER had problems or issues. As a graphic artists, they are all I use.

Maybe it’s because the Adobe products are being used on PC’s instead of Mac’s? Though I have the same products on my PC at home and still don’t have these so-called issues. *shrug*

By: sophiabelle

sophiabelle — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:24:53 +0000

I suggest adding an additional slice – “Time spent breaking down language barrier at Adobe customer service from a guy who says his name is Roy but who clearly is really named Srini.”

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:23:30 +0000

Actually I have yet to even come close to maxing out my RAM. Maybe if I’m running Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash all while listening to music, downloading files, browsing the Internet and poking your mom on Facebook it might break the 75% marker. But still, I can only poke your mom so many times before it starts to get boring.

See, I have DDR3 RAM that runs at 1333MHz, unlike any memory you can get in a Mac, which is DDR2 RAM that runs at only 800MHz.

By: C'est Moi

C'est Moi — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:45:51 +0000

This graph is true for me. Adobe Acrobat is the main culprit, though. I’ve never had those issues with Photoshop.

By: elocin277

elocin277 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:02:42 +0000

Nerdiest Thread EVER!

By: xorsyst

xorsyst — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:26:31 +0000

Foxit reader FTW!

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:40:38 +0000

You mean Motorola?

By: Rodrigo Fernandez

Rodrigo Fernandez — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:53:24 +0000

My post is bigger than your post
which is bigger than his post
but not quite as big as my post
which means that my member is bigger
But yours is still bigger than his
yet still smaller than mine
But I’m not competitive
So I’ll let this go

By: Max

Max — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:35:35 +0000

Me too.
But you forgot time spent installing products. That’s also a sizable section.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:25:49 +0000

*everything* is about penis length
which means, penis lenght is everything

well most anything that is competitive can be taken personally,
and i’d say humans are pretty competitive by nature so
anything can be about penis length

By: !null

!null — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:33:16 +0000

Lmao gotta love all the “my computer’s bigger than yours!” posts coming out here as if the graph was about penis length or something.

By: teh penguin

teh penguin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:33:51 +0000

I have a Compaq with a pentium 4 2.0Ghz with 512mb ram running windows 2000 and that chart should be the other way around in my option.

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:21:37 +0000

Percentage of RAM usage by software:
Adobe Photoshop from Creative Suite 3: 17%
Microsoft Windows Vista: 54%
Malware: 7%
Anti-Malware: 14%
Hard drive cache: 8%

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:12:17 +0000

You guys must have slow computers… Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme (3.2 GHz) processor FTW!!! Oh yeah, and a Radeon 4800 series graphics card and 4 GB DDR3 RAM and Windows Vista Ultimate x64. No problems, whatsoever, loads CS3 in seconds. WIN!

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:12:15 +0000

PC is not a platform. An x86 Apple machine running OSX is a PC. An Ubuntu Dell is a PC. A Vista HP is a PC. An XP Compaq is a PC.

Macs stopped being special to me when IBM’s incompetence with mobility forced them to abandon the PPC ISA.

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:10:01 +0000

So, what, you’d rather they just /not/ updated it?

..wait, do they give you changelogs?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:05:29 +0000

You forgot to get a faster computer.

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:05:02 +0000

Quick note– you should NEVER restart unless there’s a kernel update. If you just want to turn your computer off, use ’sleep’ or ’suspend’, or /maybe/ hibernate. Suspend takes like 5 seconds to get right back to your desktop and uses very, very little power.
–you might say Ubuntu support for suspend is sketchy, but hey, that’s why I bought it preinstalled– I don’t have to worry about any of that.
(I tried OSX on my Dell and its hardware support was horrible.)

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:02:11 +0000

What I find odd is that Ubuntu doesn’t ship with Inkscape in main. GIMP is this scary, powerful thing the average user can’t handle, especially with the upcoming 2.6 w/ cmyk and all that jazz, it’s going to be basically a free photoshop clone.
…Windows ships with paint, and most people still use it. Never underestimate toys, they’re important.

I’m giving a howto speech on inkscape for my public speaking class tomorrow, trying to write up my outline now..

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:59:12 +0000

Yeah really, screw that, get an Ubuntu Dell or a mac.

By: sgk

sgk — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:45:20 +0000

Hah I ignore the update requests everytime.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:28:30 +0000

And I’d still rather dick with the damn updates than watch Dragonball Z.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:01:38 +0000

wtf? ur computers must suck (read : PCs)
i use the adobe CS3 suite as a graphic designer everyday and i never have to update/restart, and it loads just slightly slower than firefox.

and mega lulz @ inkscape (read : noob)

this graph is fail.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:29:24 +0000

Must be using windows.

By: random comment

random comment — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:26:26 +0000

Photoshopped!

By: jp

jp — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:52:05 +0000

I stopped using adobe, apart from flash player. it’s become bloatware supreme. Inkscape and the Gimp FTW!

By: arnold

arnold — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:25:53 +0000

even reversed that’s a lot of time processing updates…

By: lc

lc — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:22:02 +0000

i have not had these issues. my pie chart colors would be reversed.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:20:17 +0000

Uber agree, i have sat through about… 9000 updates for adobe

WHAT 9000?!?! THERES NO WAY THAT CAN BE RIGHT!?!

By: Jessticles

Jessticles — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:19:49 +0000

You forgot to add the section of Waiting on Adobe to Load….. plugins *grumble grumble*

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:11:29 +0000

Agree!