[Leica] PhotoShop Elements 4.0 on iMac

[drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)]

They're almost giving away flash memory. :-) I just bought a 1GB XD card
for $24. I think that's what I paid for a spare 32MB card back when I
bought my Canon G2 (which came with an 8MB card). 

IMO the affordability of flash cards, as much as anything, is making
digital photography practical. So tiny yet so spacious! What's next?

I'm certainly glad I bought a Sandisk 12 in 1 card reader back when I
did. I think I'm at 11 different types now. Not all for cameras. One
plugs into my HD TV. I use that for slide shows. My Sony XBR will do a
slide show, and play MPEGs on the same card for background music. It's
not Kodachrome and Ektagraphic III quality. But it's cetainly
convenient. And the sound quality is better than the cassette system
that connects to my Ektagraphic. 

DaveR

-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard Taupier [mailto:len-1@comcast.net] 
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 10:30 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] PhotoShop Elements 4.0 on iMac

Hi Brian.

Memory isn't that expensive anymore. I would go to 2G. I think thats  
a minimum for heavy graphics. I upgraded to 4G on my 2.3 Ghz G5. But  
I run CS2. Don't expect a 150M color tiff to open in a half second  
though.

Len


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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