Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John, The answer to your question is simple: buy all the memory and hard disk space you can afford--those picture files are big! Also do not forget a good video card and ditto monitor. Instead or in addition to a Zip drive, I recommend a CD ROM burner. The Zip disks are handy but much more expensive per megabyte than blank CDRs. Also, if you want to share stuff with other people, a CD is a much more universal medium than a Zip disk. Nathan John McLeod wrote: > LUGgers, > > I am planning to purchase a new desktop PC soon and want it to have the > "horsepower" for using Photoshop or similar programs. If one goes to a > website like Dell's, for example, and tries to configure a system. there are > many variables including system RAM, video/graphics RAM, hard drive space, > whether to include a built-in Zip drive, printer type, etc. I want to be > sure that this new PC is up to the task of digital photography in general. > Advice appreciated. > > Since this request is already off-topic, if the advice gets too detailed for > general LUG consumption (e.g. the pros and cons of 4 vs. 16 MB of > video/graphics memory), private e-mail is fine. > > John McLeod - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium Photography page: http://members.tripod.com/~belgiangator/index.html Motorcycle page: http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/1704/index.html