[Leica] Mac desktop for Photoshop CS2?

[rsphotoimages at comcast.net (Bob Shaw)]

Jeff:

I use a 2-year old iMac (CRT, not LCD - the rather awkward looking one).

It sports a full MS Office Pro load, Safari, Firefox, Quicken, Windows 
Media Player (I actually ran Windows XP on it for a while), etc. etc.


Oh, and did I mention Photoshop Elements 4.0?

Thing is If I shoot a crappy image, it's crappy; don't need CS2 as I 
shoot R8 and R9 mostly film, have Costco scan to high res disc, load 
into iPhoto then export the few remaining decent images to Elements for 
home proof printing on a Canon i860 (up to 8x10).  If it's a "lucky 
shot", I pass on the CD and have an archive print made at a local lab 
from the negative.

Plus more than 1,600 SuperLarge JPGs in iPhoto, etc.

So yeah, get the latest iMac.  You won't be disappointed.  Any Mac 
model faster, it just keeps getting better.

Bob in Seattle


On Nov 19, 2006, at 14:42, Jeffery Smith wrote:

My current Gateway computer works fine for just about everything. It 
was a
top-end screamer when I bought it nearly 4 years ago. But using it with
Photoshop CS is enough to push me nearly over the edge. Sometimes it 
takes
20 seconds to respond to an [Alt] push when using the healing brush. It 
is
simply too slow and too limited in resources to work well or even 
marginally
with Photoshop CS. I feel that I have two choices:

(1) Buy 4 gb of memory and see if that speeds things up
(2) Buy a low end Mac and use it for PS CS2 only

For those of you out there who are Mac aficionados, what would be a
reasonable lower end Mac for use with PS CS2 keeping in mind that I 
will be
using it for that ONLY. Maybe an iMac in the $1,500 to $2,000 area? 
Doesn't
the Mac handle memory and resources better than Windows XP. Your 
thoughts
and suggested are heartily welcomed.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
http://400tx.blogspot.com/




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