Should I upgrade?

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Fruit2O
Jul 17, 2007
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I have inherited a desktop with the following specs:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim2400/en/sm_ en/specs.htm

I am now using a laptop with a 1GHz processor and 512MB ram, XP Pro. Any thoughts on the idea of using this inherited machine for Photoshop? Of course, I would put a larger IDE drive in it and increase the memory to 1GB – also add a DVD drive. Not familiar with the on board graphics card. Let me know if you need more information. Thanks……..

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DM
Jul 17, 2007
Fruit2O wrote:
I have inherited a desktop with the following specs:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim2400/en/sm_ en/specs.htm
I am now using a laptop with a 1GHz processor and 512MB ram, XP Pro. Any thoughts on the idea of using this inherited machine for Photoshop? Of course, I would put a larger IDE drive in it and increase the memory to 1GB – also add a DVD drive. Not familiar with the on board graphics card. Let me know if you need more information. Thanks……..

You should definitely switch to the new machine. The CPU alone is more than twice the speed of your laptop.


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jaSPAMc
Jul 17, 2007
Dawid Michalczyk found these unused words:

Fruit2O wrote:
I have inherited a desktop with the following specs:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim2400/en/sm_ en/specs.htm
I am now using a laptop with a 1GHz processor and 512MB ram, XP Pro. Any thoughts on the idea of using this inherited machine for Photoshop? Of course, I would put a larger IDE drive in it and increase the memory to 1GB – also add a DVD drive. Not familiar with the on board graphics card. Let me know if you need more information. Thanks……..

You should definitely switch to the new machine. The CPU alone is more than twice the speed of your laptop.

I’d suggest thnking of having an external USB/Firewire HD. Should anything happen to one, your data, etc. can be immediately accessed by the other.
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Waterspider
Jul 17, 2007
"Sir F. A. Rien" wrote in message
Dawid Michalczyk found these unused words:

Fruit2O wrote:
I have inherited a desktop with the following specs:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim2400/en/sm_ en/specs.htm
I am now using a laptop with a 1GHz processor and 512MB ram, XP Pro. Any thoughts on the idea of using this inherited machine for Photoshop? Of course, I would put a larger IDE drive in it and increase the memory to 1GB – also add a DVD drive. Not familiar with the on board graphics card. Let me know if you need more information. Thanks……..

You should definitely switch to the new machine. The CPU alone is more than twice the speed of your laptop.

I’d suggest thnking of having an external USB/Firewire HD. Should anything happen to one, your data, etc. can be immediately accessed by the other.
Excellent idea, regardless of system and software.
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Fruit2O
Jul 19, 2007
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:16:38 -0400, Fruit2O wrote:

I have inherited a desktop with the following specs:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim2400/en/sm_ en/specs.htm
I am now using a laptop with a 1GHz processor and 512MB ram, XP Pro. Any thoughts on the idea of using this inherited machine for Photoshop? Of course, I would put a larger IDE drive in it and increase the memory to 1GB – also add a DVD drive. Not familiar with the on board graphics card. Let me know if you need more information. Thanks……..

Well, an alternative is to buy a new system. They’re not that expensive now. What do you guys think?
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Joel
Jul 19, 2007
Fruit2O wrote:

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Well, an alternative is to buy a new system. They’re not that expensive now. What do you guys think?

I think I can agree with you.
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Rob
Jul 20, 2007
Fruit2O wrote:

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:16:38 -0400, Fruit2O wrote:

I have inherited a desktop with the following specs:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim2400/en/sm_ en/specs.htm
I am now using a laptop with a 1GHz processor and 512MB ram, XP Pro. Any thoughts on the idea of using this inherited machine for Photoshop? Of course, I would put a larger IDE drive in it and increase the memory to 1GB – also add a DVD drive. Not familiar with the on board graphics card. Let me know if you need more information. Thanks……..

Well, an alternative is to buy a new system. They’re not that expensive now. What do you guys think?

You can spend as much doing an upgrade and still not have any performance.
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garypoyssick
Jul 25, 2007
The software is getting more and more demanding on hardware. And more demanding in Intel chips. Let’s not forget that Adobe spent a year and a half of beta time dedicated solely to getting the software running universal, to get it off the G5 chip and onto the Intel slave ship.

But Photoshop continues to grow in demands. Buy a new machine; the fastest, hardest chip and the largest bucket or RAM. Drive space isn’t nothing anymore — it’s in processors.

I’m running four dual Intels 3g each and the machine isn’t real time; Adobe software requires more hardware then exists — and always will.

On 7/20/07 3:52 AM, in article 46a069d0$, "Rob" wrote:

Fruit2O wrote:

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:16:38 -0400, Fruit2O wrote:

I have inherited a desktop with the following specs:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim2400/en/sm_ en/specs.htm
I am now using a laptop with a 1GHz processor and 512MB ram, XP Pro. Any thoughts on the idea of using this inherited machine for Photoshop? Of course, I would put a larger IDE drive in it and increase the memory to 1GB – also add a DVD drive. Not familiar with the on board graphics card. Let me know if you need more information. Thanks……..

Well, an alternative is to buy a new system. They’re not that expensive now. What do you guys think?

You can spend as much doing an upgrade and still not have any performance.

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