Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In my experience, with Windows machines (of any vintage) a reformat of the hard drive and reinstall of programs speeds things up a lot more than more RAM. Phil On Nov 29, 2007, at 12:29 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Hi Jeffery, > > I don't know. I just realized that my desktop at home in NL is not 4 > but 5 years old. It is far from non-functional. I bought it back > then with 1 GB RAM, which I have since doubled, and I also added a > second internal HD and a better DVD burner at some point. It runs > Lightroom and CS2 just fine, as well as the other software I have on > it. Granted, I still use Office 2000 on it, but so what? > > Likewise, my Powerbook G4 which now is my main computer (since it is > the only one I have with me here in Spain) came with 512 MB when I > bought it in early 2006, but for about ?100 I added the RAM to bring > it up to 1.25 GB, and it runs both Lightroom and Photoshop just > fine. Basically almost all the pictures I have posted this year have > been processed on this computer. > > I have found over the years that one of Adobe's virtues is that > successive versions of their programs do not necessarily get bigger > and slower the way most other software does. When I went from > Photoshop 7 to CS, I discovered to my delight that CS actually ran > faster on the same hardware. > > I think that as long as one does not follow Microsoft's upgrade > path, a computer can easily last several years before it is obsolete. > > Nathan > > On 29-nov-2007, at 3:03, Jeffery Smith wrote: > >>> >>> I think that "as much as you can afford" is the best answer. I >>> will no >>> longer buy a computer with less than 4gb. A PC that I bought that >>> was a real >>> "screamer" 5 years ago is now completely non-functional. Just >>> starting >>> Windows and getting Outlook up and running takes about 15 minutes. >>> What you >>> buy now will be made obsolete as soon as possible. That's what keeps >>> computer manufacturers in business. Today's screamer is tomorrow's >>> molasses >>> in winter. An Apple notebook that I bought in early 2005 now >>> crawls with its >>> 512mb RAM. Same computer, but new software. Since you cannot feed >>> the >>> computer steroids, buy a muscular one to begin with. >>> >> >> -- >> Jeffery L. Smith >> New Orleans, LA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > Nathan Wajsman > nathan@nathanfoto.com > General photography: > http://www.nathanfoto.com > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information