Thanx. Right now Photoshop gets 75 percent of available Ram, which is less than
3 gigs. The more-ram option is looking better all the time, especially, if I
understand correctly, with Snow Leopard and CS5 being able to go 64 bit.
--Bob Whitmire
www.bobwhitmire.com
On Sep 27, 2010, at 11:16 AM, siddiq@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Another thing, Bob, is you can configure PS to use a certain percentage of
> available RAM for the application. Maybe play around with that as well
> (either now, or after adding more RAM). Should get you some more life out of
> the machine.
>
> On Sep 27, 2010, at 4:08 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>
>> Thanx for all the help on the slow computer questions. I think answer 1 is
>> more memory. Answer 2, after exploring the system, is a better scratch
>> system. I've been using a second hard drive, but it's also got backup stuff
>> on it, and there's only 22 gigs of free space left. I suspect CS4 is having
>> to access a 1.5 TB external drive for scratch when I work on those large
>> layered files. Answer 3 will be a new video card, if there's any money left
>> over after 1 & 2. <g>
>>
>> Looks like I can get out of this for a lot less than the price of a new
>> computer, though I did notice somewhere, including B&H, that Mac Pros are
>> being configured and offered as strictly photo processing machines, and they
>> don't have nearly the firepower you might think you're going to need.
>>
>> --Bob Whitmire
>> www.bobwhitmire.com
>>
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