More than 25 minutes to install CS ?

[CygnusX1@adobeforums.com]

Is this normal?
Installing the whole CS takes more than 25 minutes I think close to 40 minutes.
This was being installed on a PB OSX(10.3.X) and after starting the installer(enter serial number and registering) the installation took truly in excess of 25-40 minutes I kid you not.
Is this right? is ther something I did wrong?

Very curious.

[Buko@adobeforums.com]

You loaded it on a slow computer???

[Graham_Phillips@adobeforums.com]

The PowerBook is a little aggressive in slowing down the optical drive between reads (presumably to save power and reduce heat output), whereas the Power Mac keeps it spun up for much longer. I have often found that CD installations take longer on notebooks.

[CygnusX1@adobeforums.com]

Thanks.
The Powerbook was a 1Ghz 12" with 640 MB ram.
I mean I've installed Adobe apps onm towers and it's way fast compared to this.
I had no idea PB would be like this (installation only).

[iGary@adobeforums.com]

The optical drives that burn DVD are way slow. Before the latest 4X DVD drives were available installs were slow even on the towers. That is one reason I skip the SuperDrives and elect to get external, after market DVD burners.

[CygnusX1@adobeforums.com]

Interesting, I had no idea.

[Graham_Phillips@adobeforums.com]

I have the combo drive in my PowerBook. It is faster than the SuperDrive at burning CD-RW but it isn't any quicker at installing software. Fortunately I don't have to install software very often. The SuperDrive in my Power Mac is fast at installing, but only 4x for CD-RW.

[Tim_Lookingbill@adobeforums.com]

Ditto here on my Pismo PB. Four year old model.

I bought an external scsi 24X read HP9600 cdrw for my even older PM9600/300 tower with its stock 24X cd drive which was also faster than the 500mhz Pismo at installing SW. Hooked the HP to the Pismo through a scsi pcmcia card and it's much faster than the stock 24X read DVD drive. Of course the HP has a 2MB buffer.

The pismo's stock drive chugs quite a bit as it tries to keep filling the buffer during installs. At least I think its trying to do that. Its noisey and slow none the less.