Re: Why and How I switched to Canon (for those who care) long

[Paul Stenquist]

Yep, that scratch disk is critical. I have 100 gig on a firewire drive 
as scratch. That makes all the difference. I would guess your processor 
is faster than mine. My box was top of the line three years ago or so, 
so it's past middle age in computer years. But it doesn't slow me down 
since I'm past middle age as well:-). However, when Apple introduces to 
the G5 dual 3 gig box, I may find it hard to resist.
Paul
On Apr 30, 2005, at 11:35 PM, William Robb wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist"
Subject: Re: Why and How I switched to Canon (for those who care) long

I don't have an extreme setup. Just a dual 1.25 G4 with 1.5 gig of 
ram. Conversions are very rapid. I store files on two firewire drives 
with about 350 gig total capacity and back them up on dvd. Some shots 
are stored only as 72 meg 8-bit, but I keep all the RAW files as 
weil. I do two backups of shots I consider extremely important. I'm 
going to add another 500 gig firewire drive when I start running 
short on space. Drives are relatively inexpensive these days.
Not sure how that compares to my Athlon. It's a 64 bit processor, I 
don't know how that benchmarks against a dual.
I also have no ida how much Window slows things down compared to a 
Mac, if in fact it does.
I just did a forced upgrade on mine, and I bumped the RAM to 3 gig and 
put in a second SATA drive (I expect this is similar in tranfer speed 
to a firewire). I gave Photoshop the two SATA drives for swap, and am 
keeping the Windows pagefile on C.
It seems pretty fast, and as i accidentally found out the other day, 
it will work a ridiculously large file.
I was playing and created a 3.4 or something stupid gigabyte file, and 
then hit it with the healing brush.

William Robb