> I'll and my 2c here<g> > I have two machines i use in the field,both ME and the viewer has 128meg and the main > print machine > has 256 meg of ram.I find the 256 will crap out after loading and printing a lot of images > so i need to > reboot several times a dya(usually when he is busy) > When just using PS 6 at home 256 seems fine.Not sure what the HD speed is though. > My XP machine has 256 meg aswell and PS works well on it too,a bit faster than my ME > machines.
More important than memory in many instances is properly setting up a scratch disk for PS. Ideally, the scratch disk should be a separate drive, or, if that's not possible, a separate partition on the drive. That will make a big difference. Also, set the Windoze swap or paging file to a specific size instead of letting it adjust itself. Make sure it's large enough, though. On my Win98 machine, I set the swap file to 512mb, and, with no other changes to the system, PS6 ran noticeably better. The actual speed of the hard drive is of secondary importance. HTH, Tyrone
