[Leica] PhotoShop Elements 4.0 on iMac

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

A recent MacWorld test showed that going up to 2gig gave MUCH  
improved performance.

Increasing that to 3 gig gave VERY little improvement over 2.

ric



On Jun 8, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Brian Ampolsk wrote:

> I'm using PhotoShop Elements 4.0 on my iMac Intel Dual Core running  
> at 2.16 GHz.  It has 250 MB storage and 1 GB memory.  I find that  
> when I run Elements, it's very slow indeed and also slows down  
> everything else on the iMac.  I've always preached that the best  
> bang for the buck in computer hardware is memory.  'will it run  
> substantially better with 2 Gig memory?  Should I increase to the  
> system max of 3  gig?  Has anyone else had experience with a  
> similarly configured system?  And, finally, is anyone using Capture  
> One LE (that came with the  M8) or Capture One Professional .  If  
> so, do either of these products perform better than Elements?  I  
> assume that PhotoShop  CS will perform worse, not better.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
> Brian
>
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