I'm absolutely in love with my MacBook Pro. The power of a desktop in a portable that I can take with me anywhere is truly fantastic. I will say honestly that this is the best machine I've had to date.
The only problem I've had with the machine is related to Rosetta. For some unknown reason, Adobe Photoshop frequently causes Rosetta to malfunction, and afterward it's impossible to launch any app in Rosetta (the app will simply bounce in the dock once or twice and then die). I'm not sure why Photoshop does this, but it happens pretty regularly.
When this first started, I was restarting the machine whenever I needed to use Photoshop. Luckily, this wasn't a terribly frequent occurrence, but it was a pain none the less.
Finally, today, I took the time to look in to this more and realized that it is in fact Rosetta hanging, and a simple terminal command would fix the situation any time it happened:
sudo killall translated
Rosetta will die and then restart the next time it's needed. Hopefully in the future, Apple or Adobe will fix this issue, but in the mean time this is a lot better than having to restart.
You can also create an AppleScript to make this faster:
try
do shell script ¬
"killall translated" password ¬
"YourPass" with administrator privileges
--replace "YourPass" with your password
on error
beep
end try
I've saved this as a run-only script and assigned a Quicksilver trigger to it, so I can run it quickly whenever I need to.