On 20/11/04, Don Sanderson, discombobulated, unleashed: >The machine I am currently using I built 2-1/2 years ago. >It's not OLD, but it is nearly OBSOLETE. >Photoshop CS is almost more than it can handle. >In the case of photo work you need the things you listed >below plus: >As much RAM as the machine will hold and a nice fast extra >hard drive to use as a "scratch disk", this help PhotoShop >a lot! >Dual monitor support is very nice too. >(I can do PS on one and PDML on the other) ;-)
My Photoshop workstation is a PowerMac G3 450 with 1GB RAM, 2 drives: 27GB and 140 GB that I bought used in 2002 for �400. It originally came with a 12 GB and 512Kb RAM, which I upgraded. It was used from new in 1999 by a graphics studio. It's still going strong. It's fairly fast even in this day and age but showing it's age slightly - PS 7 takes 16 seconds to open. I would like a new machine at some point but we run 4 Macs in the house and Rome was not built in one day ;-) <http://www.apple-history.com/frames/body.php?page=gallery&model=g3blue> Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________

