Apparently this month is my month for slacking off in compelling blog content, so continuing in that vein here's a nice little screencap I took while getting Adobe Reader 8 "rammed" to me (I'm nicking this phrase from Rob). In fairness, installation took "only" about 10 minutes, but that initial figure and progress bar did hang there for several of those minutes, inciting my rage and the pressing of Alt+PrintScreen. 2.4 GHz, 512MB RAM. Thankfully, since that time I've got a new laptop that can handle these modern, bloated document readers...
Installation of Illustrator, Photoshop and Bridge from Adobe Web Suite CS3 took only… Hmmm, I don’t know exactly, because I gave up after 1 hour waiting and went to sleep. When I woke up all was done! Beautiful!