Mac seems to enter in a Windows era

I have to say that last months are pernicious for Mac users. The list of endless bugs don`t stop. Safari 3.1 don`t install through software update, parental controls don`t work, some applications available through Mac site don`t run because there are video card incompatibilities, updates and bug fixes are very slow, etc etc. As a Mac user I`m not used to this kind of things and I have to say that now Mac seems Windows with all kind of bugs, malfunctions, errors, etc. Apple needs to rethink what they are doing to costumers.

I must say you are very lucky and I`m very happy for you. However im my iMac, intel at 2,66GHz, 3Gb RAM I can`t install Safari 3.1 through software update. Many other users also have the same problem (take a look at this forum). Safari 3.0 is not compatible with some web sites and make nonsense things like to redirect you for another page that has nothing to do with what you were doing. Because of this I changed to Firefox and everything works. My son has a Macbook 2,2GHz intel, 2Gb RAM, and parental controls simply don`t work for time limits. This bug was not corrected with the last update for leopard. This also seems to be a common bug for other users. Tried to install and run mackiev 3D Atlas deluxe version on my son`s macbook and it simply don`t run because of a video card issue that apple didn`t fix yet.
What else on the way ?

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Im still fairly new to a Mac having been a Windows PC user for years. I certainly like what I've seen so far. Reasonably competent with Photoshop CS3 and have loaded Mac version.
I have 24" iMac with latest Leopard.
Main printer is Epson R2400 but also use Canon Pixma iP8500 and both worked fine with PC.
I had a number of CS3 files set up in a folder on my Windows PC and copied these on to my Mac. Some involve an image of 7.5" x 5.5" centred (on A4 canvas) and then framed by a thin 1px border of 10" x 8". These are for a particular task I perform and they need to be like that. Also have a lot of straightforward images in folders where I resize them to say 12" x 10" and then print out.
All seem to print out larger than I'm telling them to do. For example, the images with the 1px border of 10" x 8" print out about 0.25" bigger. This isn't a huge problem with the other images but the 1px bordered ones need to be exactly the size I specify (apart from it frustrating me that it won't do what I ask!). What I'm doing is to reduce the scale to about 98% and then it comes out near enough to what I want.
Anyone have any tips?
Thanks,
Bob

Thanks to Neil & Jean for your replies.
Neil - I agree - all things being equal, the prints should be identical but can I achieve that? No! Sometimes I can, other times I can't and I think it comes down to my not understanding yet how the Mac settings work. There is an Apple Store locally but it is a couple of hours driving as a round trip and I can't get there for a few days. They won't deal with phone queries.
Jean - you ask if I'm printing borderless. I've tried this but there's another problem. Sometimes when I try this the printer icon in the Dock bounces around and won't let me print, other times it's OK but still prints bigger than it should. On yet more occasions I get an image centred and of the right size.
I'm sure I'm doing something wrong that's obvious to someone else, and it's nothing to do with the hardware. A few days ago I had a full head of hair but that's no longer the case.
Sorry to put you to the trouble but can either of you tell me what settings you use for centred A4 printing? In a previous post I was advised to go into page settings and set all the margins to 0.56 ins. This seemed to work for a while but what do you use? Also what do you enter in Presets in the Print Dialogue box? Is the "Last Used Settings" the one to use or something else (I've tried various settings in this box). Presumably "Last Used Settings" does what it says on the tin - problem is, I don't know the settings to use in the first place!
Apologies for raising such basic stuff.
Thanks,
Bob

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Thank you. There is a bigger issue. It is not the web page that is the problem. It is that I can see my mouse moving and can move it along the bottom toolbar and the options will highlight but I can't click on anything. I can see the apple icon to get to force quit but cant click on it.
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Using the printer's front panel, select Menu > Network > WLAN > TCP/IP > Boot method, and change it to "static". Provide a static IP address that is on your LAN's subnet.
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Got a bit of a strange issue here.
I've set a mac mini that is running windows server software to always boot into the windows partition through "startup disk" in sys prefs. It does this just fine when properly shut down or restarted, but always boots back into OSX if the power down is unexpected. Of course, one might say, well hold down the "option" key when it restarts and choose where you want to boot to, but this machine will often be left unattended, and it NEEDS to go right back into Windows if that happens.
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SSD seems to be linked to having problem for some
Some go back to pre-SP1
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rebel1568,
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CS3 is totally out of the upgrade or cross-grade loop. You'd have to buy a new license for CS6 Mac or subscribe to Photoshop CC, as Trevor points out.
Curt Y is correct in that CS2 will not run on current Mac-Intel machines. You would need a used Mac G5 or G4 with a PowerPC (IBM) CPU, which have been obsolete since mid 2006.
Of course, you could run your Windows on your Mac if you installed and ran BootCamp or Parallells.

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MacBook Pro
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1. I have a Mac Laptop, a Windows 7 laptop and an IPAD Air. I have an application on the IPad that shares files.
2. On both the Windows and Mac machines, I have the latest versions of ITunes installed.
3. With Image and IPhoto, I can browse the Documents directory of the shared application on the IPAD.
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