I have done large books (1300 p) in CS3, which is rock stable. CS5 was an absolute disaster (crash with leaving documents unrecoverable). I now consider upgrading to CS6, which requires OSX.8x (current version is X.8.4). What are your experiences with long single documents (>1000 p) and/or books with >1000 pages with hundreds of image links? Particularly with respect to stability/crashes.
I run a MacPro desktop with Quad2.66GHz processor currently running 10.6.8, boot disk is a 1 TB drive just used for applications/scratch disk (937 GB free), document disk are 2x 1TB in RAID1 (425 GB free). 8 GB or RAM (consider upgrading). Dual 27 cinema displays. Back up on external 8T NAS drive in RAID5.
Any experiences of taking long CS3 documents to CS6?