Did the SMC Firmware Update cripple some Intel Mac clock speeds?

my cpu caps out at 1500, never higher now and never sleeps when I close the lid, so my screen and MBP cooks

My iMac 2.0 is running at full 2GHZ, at "idle" CPU usage-- 2.9% and 27 degrees C.

Did anyone else notice the temperature, 145 degrees farenheit.

Whoops, I meant #12, that wasn't even a new post change, I just misread big time.

Though #11 (Greg) is fairly right, I thought I remember hearing that they said some bigger aps wouldn't run as smoothly at first (well, at first meaning until the we Universal.) I had no expectations of supreme preformance through Rosetta due to the fact that the CPU archs are so different that a drop in preformance is expected. As far as Adobe apps are concerned, I only have a problem with Photoshop and Illustrator killing each other when I work on large files, funny thing is Photoshop and InDesign run just dandy at the same time. I actually haven't touched XP for a good time now, despite having the tools there. Maybe it's the fact that my fonts are mostly mac only, but unless the image is 600+dpi, I normally kick it Rosetta style for PS work recently.

As far as the firmware update, I've seen it spike to 2Ghz when I run heavy load, but idle 1500 normally, with a rare 1000 at boot. What I really want to do is easily force it up manually, as I'm still rather new to the mac portable world I've not yet found much in the way of MBP clock utils (any suggestions?) I mean sometimes I just like to know everything is at top pace, or in the case of battery mongering (something my old dieing PC laptop battery required) I'd like to drop it down low.

#11 I'm aware of the Macrodobia situation, however Rosetta does not run as smoothly as showcased; with more than one Adobe app open at a time the system becomes unstable, and stability is one of the main reasons I purchased a Mac. I have no choice but to wait for CS3 to run Adobe apps natively in OSX (sans Rosetta), but I'll take XP over Rosetta until then.

#1 stop crying. Adobe is not going to rease a UB untill CS3. They are not stupid. They have Macromedia now so i am sure that is going to take some time to figure out what projects need to be updated.

Only trouble I had on my Mini was it broke the pairing with my remote. But it went smoothly enough.

No speed issues to report.

I'd be more likely to blame the utility. When I run it, it won't operate until I close my MBP, have it go to sleep, then reopen the lid.

no problems reported here either after the SMC firmware update last night. Haven't noticed my MBP running cooler, but it wasn't hotter than 65 C before. If it runs cooler, I would welcome that.