Why is better Preview than Acrobat for reading

When you install Acrobat Pro appears a window asking if you want to use it as default reader... SELECT NO!!!! and use Preview.
This is the reason:
Buggy Acrobat Pro (any version) can't handle large pages of PDFs and instead of Preview for Mac OS X that do it excellent because is better.
Try this:
1) Go to http://www.tastyapps.com/ and download Web Snapper and install it in Safari. This application capture any webpage.
2) Go to http://regexlib.com/Search.aspx and select RESULTS PER PAGE 100 to get a large webpage result.
3) Press the SEARCH button.
4) Now you have a large webpage of 100 items of results.
5) Capture this webpage with Web Snapper and create a PDF without pagination.
6) Open it in Preview for Mac OS X and you will see the PDFs Page PERFECT!!!
7) Open the same PDF page in Acrobat Pro... and you will see a BLANK PAGE!!!!
I capture a lot of PDFs and create one ebook using Acrobat Pro... but all with BLANK PAGES!!!
Cheers
Tom

Here may be part of the problem perhaps: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4664
The GMA X3100 found in 2008 MacBook models appears to be incompatible with the software, along with many other models of graphics card. Meaning a large percentage of users aren't technically meant to upgrade anymore, even though Lion will be okay on their systems.
It's bizarre to think I can import and export footage that will remain it's original colour/gamma, but during editing in the preview window [not even in the timeline or event browser thumbnails] it goes virtually grayscale. Every other part of FCPX works perfectly fine, no slowdown or anything.
Pretty disappointing if there is no workaround to this eventually!

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    No single character at a time, no loop - the whole file into a single string in one shot. If buffers are used, i want it hidden.
    Perl, PHP, VB, C# all have this. Even Java has it when you write to a file.
    So why not on read?
    Yes, buffered streams are very elegant, but for what most programmers want to do, they are overkill and annoying.

    Just Dennis Ritchie's little joke.
    Do you have a better reason for wanting the feature
    other than that some other languages have it?Yes. It would save me time and help dozens of new programmers who continually ask this question in this and other forums. It is in other languages because people use it and want it - clearly Jarkata saw the need. If you don't like the idea, then I won't argue the point. We agree to disagree.
    Also did you have an answer for my question?in java.io.file you can do the following: (i've used it, it works) Granted, you still have to use the buffered output streams, which in my opinion should be abstracted for a simple text read and write.
    BufferedWriter outputStream = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(fileNewPath));
    outputStream.write(fileContent);
    outputStream.close();

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