Advice concerning your laptop hard drive.
Rotational speed has an effect on data read and
write rates, and a drive with a 7200rpm speed
will perform better than one spinning at 5400 (it
will also use battery charge faster). Check for
built-in RAM on your drive also - more is better.
DaleH
In message Thu, 16 Sep 2004, planty writes
I'd appreciate advise on Processor speed,monitor spec etc.
My budget is around �1,000 but could go a little higher if I have to and has
to be a windows xp machine as that is what I retouch on at the office.
Dear Simon
For what it's worth, having invested in the same
laptop as suggested by Michael
Wilkinson...thanks Michael, I agree. A word of
caution however, if you imagine for one moment
that using a laptop, however well specified is
going to match up to an only half decently
configured desktop, then sadly you are going to
be very disappointed!
To reduce somewhat that disappointment, I would
urge you to do this. Buy as much ram as you can
get in the laptop and do get a second hard drive
installed. Partition a section of that second
drive as a scratch disk for Photoshop. I
imagine that you will be attaching a graphics
tablet for your imaging work, also essential is
a proper monitor, good as the screen is on that
particular laptop, for serious work its simply
not good enough.
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