RAM... Leopard and Adobe CS3

hello
ive recently purchased a new 2.4 macbook pro...
maxed it out to 4GB ram with a 7200 rpm drive! running leopard and the adobe creative suite 3 master collection!
Question 1)
my computer tells me that i have 4GB of ram, but photoshop / after effects tell me that i can only make use of 3GB!
why..?
is it a software issue? or is it that 1GB is reserved for the operation of the OS? (10.5)
Question 2)
is there any way of finding out what speed my drive is?
as a friend of mine has a Macbook Pro 2.2 with a 160GB 5400rpm drive
when we look in> 'about this mac' then> 'more info' the details of both our hard drives are exactly the same!
mine should be a 160GB 7200rpm! how can i confirm this? other than looking at the invoice/order details, does te system not list or recognize this information?

1) This is an issue with Adobe Photoshop not letting anyone with more than 3GB. However, Photoshop can make use of Mac OS X memory caching which in effect allows it to utilise more than 3GB.
Be aware that mac OS X along with any other applications do also use RAM so realistically on a 4GB machine it's probably not a great idea to allocate more than 3GB anyway.
2) Do what Rajesh suggests.

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Hello,
Thank you very much for the answers, but for me it is already to late. I tried to install Tiger again, to be able to install Adobe Photoshop CS3 and then upgrade, but my iMac won't boot from the Tiger DVD even though it starts from the Leopard DVD. I have no glue what I am doing wrong. I pressed the "D" key during the boot - as stated in my manual and nothing happens. The machine just start Leopard from hard drive again.
I also tried to insert the Tiger DVD while Leopard is running and then choose the Tiger installer, but it tells me, that it can not install on my machine. I do not understand anything.
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What size hard drive do you have & how much free space?
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b irresponsible
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> I don't really deal with fonts anyway ...
Yes. You do. Even if you never type a single line of text, every application uses fonts to create menus and other GUI items. If one of those fonts are bad, it can create all kinds of problems, including the very problems you mention.
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You asked for experiences with Leopard - I can launch every application in both CS3 and CS4 suites
i simultaneously,
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I've recently switched from custom built PCs to a Mac workstation, mainly for professional photography and editing purposes. I use photoshop roughly 12 hours a day (if not more...sigh), so switching to Mac would, in my mind, streamline and enhance my work experience.
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http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/949/screenshot20100115at105.png
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