Interesting, I have no issues bringing my Dual-Core Athlon with 3GB of RAM to its knees in PS.
Of course, I also shoot LF. 500+MB TIFF's will do that to you. MF scans are also pretty brutal on system resources. Digital is very easy on a system. -Adam On 1/16/08, Mat Maessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
