All very good suggestions. One thing comes into mind though. I have a
very good experience with Dual Processor PC. Comes in handy when
PDF-ing large documents. It will only clog one processor, so you have
the other free for doing other stuff in the meantime.
Also: Two screens are almost a
On 9 Mar 2006, at 16:43, Rita Lewis wrote:
I work as a contractor at a government site, and we've been asked to
submit a wish list for upgrading our computers. Does anyone have any
advice on the current minimum standards in DTP for RAM, disk space,
My new Mac arrived this week: I went for a
I don't know that minimum standards exist anywhere.
My recommendation is not to forget RAM. I have 1Mb of RAM on my work
computer, which I consider insufficient. Anything less than 1GB of RAM
with Windows XP is *insufficient*. Any other speed improvements you
make to your computer are worthless
I'd go for as fast a processor as fits in the budget, 1M RAM minimum,
2+ recommended (I can't run FM and PS reliably and simultaneously
without it). Also, two hard drives, one for the OS and applications
and the second for data and the PS scratch disk (per Adobe's
recommendation). Most all the
