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Hi out there! I`m a sales-person at an Apple-Premium-Reseller in Austria and I`m having troubles with a customers iMac (27'', 3,06GHz, 6GB Ram, ATI-HD4670 graphics with 256mb) running CS4. The problems are mainly when using Indesign. For example if I have a 4-page document with a few layers/transparency and i go to overprint-preview, it takes very long for it to load the images/preview, and when I move the pages they sometimes freeze/jolt when moving. If its a lager document (the customer is a graphic designer, often has to deal with 60+ pages and more, so thats a bit annoying) its even worse.
Since the hardware is a relatively new iMac with 256MB graphic, I assume that there's a software issue. Its runnign MacOs 10.6.5, I did all updates on both Mac and Adobe.
Has anyone heard about similar problems? Could it be that the graphic-card in this iMac is to weak?
Please help

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