Maybe because Windows is a crash-happy virus magnet?
;-)
Mike.
tOM Trottier wrote:
> Why not go Windows and put together your own system, eg
> http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/Computer-Build-Photoshop-CS2-ftopict209906.html
>
> Any video board which supports true colour - 32-bit or better - should be
> fine. You don't need
> game speed for stills.
>
> You should also carefully consider what monitor you will use if you want it
> to look like the prints
> you make. CRTs are still the best cheap choice. Faithful LCDs are expensive.
>
> tOM
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
>> Behalf Of Bob Whitmire
>> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:51 AM
>>
> ...
>
>> The Mac Pro I used had the 2.66 gig processors, but only 1 gig of RAM. It
>> still smoked CS2 pretty good. I found some fairly large image files and
>> resized them and smart sharpened them and such to get an idea of how much I
>> could clog the machine up. Smart Sharpen sometimes took a few seconds to run
>> on a 16x20 image, but nothing like the antique Pentium 4 I'm running now.
>>
>> Sigh. So it looks like a Mac Pro, if I can muster the courage to drop that
>> kind of cash. Which may mean putting off a system switch away from Olympus
>> for a while, which will in turn mean I can see what the so-called new
>> E-Thingy actually is before I drop another wad of cash. Arrrggggg! And
>> wouldn't it make more sense to get the best imaging system I can get and
>> make do computerwise than the other way around? Arrgggggg!
>>
>
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