On 1/16/08, Amita Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > possible. I checked on DPreview and some people recommended the > following: > Single quad core motherboard > 6 to 8 Gb RAM > 3 hard drives - one for apps, one for data & one for a scratch disk for PS
I run Photoshop and Lightroom on an older dual-processor 2.5GHz G5, with 3 GB of RAM. I have yet to run it out of RAM, even with multiple images open in Photoshop. I'd say you'd be fine for the moment at least with 4 GB of RAM at a max. If you need to upgrade later, buy aftermarket RAM. Single quad-core will probably be fast enough for what you're doing. For the hard drives, I'd put two of them internally, and setup a third external drive in a firewire enclosure. Look into Time Machine to do periodic backups. I run this way at home, and I leave the firewire enclosure turned off and unplugged unless I'm backing up to it. > What do you guys think? There seems to be some debate over whether > Photoshop can even make use of multiple processors, so I'm fine with > going with the single quad core MB, but I'm not sure about the rest. Photoshop and Lightroom can absolutely make use of multiple processors. And the OS will do multitasking on its own to make sure that background tasks get taken care of on available processors, as well. Make sure to add a good monitor onto the system. I love my 23 inch Cinema Display. It's sharp, bright, and calibrates up nicely with the Colorvision Spyder I have. -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
