Screen Capture Freezes

Hi there,
This may be a known problem or something but I'm new to Mac's so forgive my lack of experience.
Anyway, when I use the screenshot to file feature (appleshift3) it kind of makes the computer go slow until the file appears taking about 20 seconds for that to happen and while that's happening if I move the mouse it stops then jumps *and repeat etc*
Is there another way to do this? I.e. PC is the print screen button then you can paste in photoshop etc, anyway to do that on a Mac?
Thanks in advance
-Lisa

hey i have the same problem. it takes forever. its annoying, since i paid 2k for a new laptop and it apparnetly can't handle something as simple as a screenshot.
anyway, as crazy as this sounds, i am going to try to reinstall leopard to see if that fixed the problem. if not, i'm going to bring it the apple store to get it checked out since i just bought this thing 3 days ago.
jus wanna let you know that you're not the only one out there with that problem w. the mbp

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