On Friday 07 February 2003 02:03, Shawn Lindsay wrote: > What's a good processor for gimp? I'm pricing a new computer. I > kind of have my eye on Intel's 3.06 P4 but am waiting for prices to > drop. What are some advantages of other processors? Mostly what I > want is quicker processing of some plugins, and being able to run > other programs at the same time. Almost anything will be better than > my Celery, but I want something really good and not outrageously > expensive. What should I look for? > > Thanks. > > Shawn. > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
I do all right with an Athlon running at about 795 Mhz. Tiger Direct will have deals on computers, cpu+motherboard etc. that will be much faster than that. The efficiency of your OS will also be a factor. I am running Slackware Linux but I am looking at Gentoo Linux which has all kinds of speed optimizations that are selectable depending on your chip. When I find time I will get it running (installation is a bit of a bear.) -- John Culleton TeX, the better layout program! Visit http://www.tug.org for a free download. or hang out at newsgroup comp.text.tex _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
