Save takes time on Mac

does anyone noticing a long lag when saving a files in Mac OS
X? everytime I save a file during work it shows the balloon and
takes about 5-10 seconds while on a PC you don't even notice the
save command. is ever going to be a overhaul for the Mac version?
Mic

yes, and yes. FW CS3 on a mac is slow and buggy and frankly I
do not see Adobe helping us by fixing issues and updating the
product. they will probably encourage us to buy an update version
stating many promising marketing buzz words and we, in our
blindness and stupidity will sheer another pack of dollars to
probably upgrade the entire suite just to notice more bugs and more
incapable products.
I have been using FW since version 2 on a PC. it did what it
needed to do.
If you search for technical support on Adobe's site you will
find the most absurd solutions to fix issues like the annoying
brush tool, they answer? "switch it off and use precise cursor".
Duh! on the PC side a solution for appearance issues is to simply
"switch of the Aero desktop when using Vista"...

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Apr 27 12:39:00 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
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Mac_Robban wrote:
Could the problem be caused by the error message at 12:38:32?
Apr 27 12:38:31 iMac-Rob shutdown: reboot by Rob:
+Apr 27 12:38:32 iMac-Rob SystemStarter[210]: authentication service (219) did not complete successfully+
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