I have heard that the windows versions of PS (up through CS at least) are not 
designed to use more than 1gb. I understand the MAC versions do not have that 
limitation.

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David Mann wrote:
On Jun 22, 2005, at 9:32 PM, mike wilson wrote:

Thanks for the info. I've got 1Gb already, in a system running WinME. Any other tips/foibles?


If you plan to install Photoshop CS you'll need Windows XP. Or a certain other platform which I shall not mention ;) I don't really find processor speed to be a big issue but memory is something you can never have enough of. Unfortunately 1Gb sticks are expensive.

The memory management of CS is a bit annoying because it never releases memory. I start running into problems (slowdowns) when it hits about 1.2Gb. If I'm only doing one scan then I'm generally OK but with multiple big scans I sometimes need to restart PS. I think the scanner


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