Apple iMac G5 for photoshop?

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johnastovall
Jan 17, 2005
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I’m looking at using an Apple iMac G5 for photoshop work and wondering how it is on that platform and is the flat screen monitor of good enough quality? Also planning on a Gig of memory.

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jjs
Jan 17, 2005
"John A. Stovall" wrote in message
I’m looking at using an Apple iMac G5 for photoshop work and wondering how it is on that platform and is the flat screen monitor of good enough quality? Also planning on a Gig of memory.

Yes and Yes, however I wouldn’t like to use it for production work in which you (or I) want all the speed you can get and a larger monitor. I’ve edited images up to 1gb on a single-disc laptop with 640k RAM, which is the worst! Painful, but you can do it.
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cb
Jan 17, 2005
If you can afford the configuration, get the 20" monitor with 2GB of RAM; especially if you plan to work with large, high-res files. Photoshop needs all the RAM you can give it.
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Vladimir Misev
Jan 18, 2005
jjs wrote:
"John A. Stovall" wrote in message

I’m looking at using an Apple iMac G5 for photoshop work and wondering how it is on that platform and is the flat screen monitor of good enough quality? Also planning on a Gig of memory.

Yes and Yes, however I wouldn’t like to use it for production work in which you (or I) want all the speed you can get and a larger monitor. I’ve edited images up to 1gb on a single-disc laptop with 640k RAM, which is the worst! Painful, but you can do it.
yup, just use eyeone or similar tool for lcd calibration, or ask a expert for help. and buy as much ram as you can (2 gig is more than ok). and enjoy 🙂

all best

vladimir
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David Magda
Jan 20, 2005
"cb" writes:

Photoshop needs all the RAM you can give it.

Hopefully this will be helped when OS X starts supporting a 64-bit address space for individual processes in Tiger.

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