Brief Hands-On Report--QuickTime 7.1.1 Fixes Many Problems
According to Apple,
QuickTime 7.1.1 addresses an issue with 3rd party start-up items on Intel Macs. This release also fixes an issue exporting to Keynote presentations to iDVD.
We downloaded QuickTime 7.1.1 and installed it on a number of Macs that had version 7.1 already installed: Power Mac G4 Cube, 17" 1GHz PowerBook G4, 20" 2GHz iMac G5, 300MHz clamshell iBook and the Intel-based Mac mini Core Duo, 2GHz iMac Core Duo and 2.16GHz MacBook Pro. No problems were encountered.
Many people, mostly those with Intel-based Macs, reported problems after installing the Security Update 2006-003 and QuickTime 7.1--both came out together on 5/11/2006 along with Front Row 1.2.2. Apple's Read Me file lists fixes for two items, especially the start-up issue experienced by many using Intel-based Macs and Adobe Creative Suite CS2 traced to a Version Cue component incompatibility. Hard freeze issues have been reported with Adobe Acrobat. The update fixed reader Joe Gudac's hard freeze problem with Tri-Backup on his iMac Core Duo so hopefully the freeze associated with Acrobat has been fixed as well. Our performance problems with Adobe GoLive on our MacBook Pro when using a 30" Cinema Display so far have not reoccurred. A number of people have had problems installing Adobe Creative Suite on Intel-based Macs which hopefully the QuickTime 7.1.1 update fixes as well but we have not yet heard from any readers on this issue.
Adobe's official announcement regarding the problems with its Creative Suite 2 and Intel-based Macs provided to Macs Only! yesterday is:
"Adobe is aware that some customers have been experiencing issues installing Creative Suite 2 on Intel-based Macs running Mac OS X, version 10.4.4 and later. We are working closely with Apple on these issues and have determined that they occur after installing QuickTime 7.1. Both companies plan to post additional information shortly."
Hopefully, QuickTime 7.1.1 resolves all of the recent issues with Adobe's Creative Suite 2 and Intel-based Macs. [Bill Fox & Dana Baggett]
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