I, too, use Photoshop a great deal (along with Quark) on a PTP 225. I took the upgrade plunge about five months ago with excellent (in my view) results. Here are some of my upgrades, along with their prices (at the time):
RAM: Upgrade to 1gb $200 (OWC) Processor: G4 450 Mhz $300 (Sonnet) These upgrades were well worth the cost; I recently worked on a 700 mg Photoshop file with no problems-not even a crash! (Fyi-the slowest part of working on the file was saving; it would take 5 or 10 minutes to write the changes!) I am still running OS 8.6 because I haven't has the time to tackle the potential headaches that I expect will arise with the upgrade to OS 9 and Jaguar (which I have already bought). If I remember correctly, for Photoshop to take advantage of Alti-Vec you need to run OS 9 at least. Sonnet now offers an 800Mhz G4 card for, I think, $300. There's a lot of life left in your PTP, with alittle bit of upgrading. Good luck! Scott Gerber >Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 06:12:45 -0800 >Subject: Upgrading a PowerComputing PTP 225 >From: Dalton James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hi All, > I've been using Photoshop 6.0 a lot lately and my machine is a bit slow for >what I want to do with it. I've also just recently got Bryce 4.0, and for >those of you that have used it know what I mean. Sl-l-l-o-o-o-w-w-w! So I >would like some suggestions on what is the best route on how to do that. > I'm running System 8.6 on my PowerComputing PTP 225 mhz with 208 megs of >physical ram. I guess a faster processor and more ram would be the ticket. I >know what kind of ram to get but I'm a bit confused on what kind of >processor card to get. I think 400 mhz would be fine. > Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > >Thanks, >Dalton > > >Please visit my web site @ www.earthstonearts.com -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:powercomputing@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:powercomputing-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:powercomputing-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
