Out her in the Maine woods without web access at the moment, so I found
something else to do.
I did some fairly extensive editing of a 5DII file using PSCS4 on my netbook+:
Celeron SU2300, 1.8GHz dual core processor.
2GB total RAM, dynamically shared with video.
Win7 64 bit
250 GB, 5400 rpm HD about half full.
4GB, class six SDHC card as Windows ReadyBoost.
PS Performance set:
1072 of the available 1511 MB of RAM reserved for PS
20 history states, 4 cache levels
Open GL Drawing off
This is considerably less horsepower than has been discussed in this thread.
Yet editing was pretty responsive. The
initial 16 bit file is 120 MB. Up to 3-4 layers, with masks, ~ 500 MB, and many
history states, most operations are very
quick. Up above that, calculation intensive things like LCE start getting slow,
maybe 4-10 seconds, although many ops
remain fast.
Saving a five layer PSD file was painfully slow, maybe 1.5-2 minutes ( My
attention wandered.) The need for both reading
the cache and writing the file on a slow rotation disk really kills write
performance. If I did this regularly, I'd max
out the memory at 4 GB and save to an external card or disk.
I don't know anything about Macs, other than that they are faster, smarter,
more artistic and better looking. It does
seem to me that super levels of all sorts of powers and capacities aren't
really necessary for pretty high levels of
editing.
Editorial Moose
On 9/27/2010 1:37 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> My 3 year old (refurbished at that) Dell XPS 410 with Win XP SP3 and 4GB RAM
> (not all usable in Winders of course) and 250GB hard drive runs PhotoShop CS3
> just fine on 5D raw files.
>
> But that doesn't mean PhotoShop isn't a memory hog. It is. But performance
> tuning software is a labor intensive business and PS won't get any better
> until there's a more effective competitor.
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