I am processing a lot of my OM-shot images for potential commercial use. 48 Mb
files are required. My new Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 at max resolution is
producing files of around 210 Mb, which gives me plenty of headroom for
cropping. I'm doing most of the work on those files before downsampling to the
required size. . . and my Athlon XP1700 XP Pro box is choking. I've got a gig
of SDRAM but most every operation in PS 7 is taking too long for me to
tolerate. I've already got two hard drives to satisfy PS scratch file needs and
according to the Windows Task Manager Performance graph, the problem is long
periods of pegged 100% CPU utilization.
The best answer is probably a twin processor Mac G5 but at about 4500 USD that
isn't an option; at least not until I sell a LOT of those images. Probably a
new motherboard, an Athlon 3000 or so, and a gig of DDR RAM. Any thoughts or
recommendations?
By the way, I am very pleased with the performance of the Minolta scanner.
This is going to keep me film-based a while longer. You can read some of the
stickers on the pilot's helmets. . . As always with Japanese software, the
user interface stinks, but I'm learning to find things and it does seem to work
better than VueScan.
Gary
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