Mike Russell wrote:

"Clyde" wrote in message

Rod Paulson wrote:

ok...how well will Photoshop run on one of the newer Celeron or Sempron procs? Good, decent or lousy?

"Hecate" wrote in message

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:37:09 GMT, "Rod Paulson" wrote:

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to run the latest versions of Photoshop
on one of the newer Celeron processors? I was thinking of building a new system for a friend. She wants the system so she can run Photoshop. Is there
any reason why it can't run on one of these cheaper procs? Let me know. Thank you very much for your time.

Yes, it will run.

And your next question should be, how well?

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The Celeron is not noted for running anything fast. It is generally considered a good, cheap light use processor. If you are doing word processing, web browsing, e-mail, or anything like that, the Celeron works just fine. If you're planning to do anything heavy, like Photoshop, games, big database work, the Celeron is lousy. I personally would not want to run Photoshop on any Celeron machine. I want to run Photoshop on as fast as computer I can find. You may not do much heavy work in Photoshop shop, then again what's the point.

Clyde

I disagree. I'm running CS2 on a 1.4 gHz Celeron M with 1.2 gig of memory, editing 8 megapixel images, and it's lightning fast. If there's a performance issue, I'm not seeing it. CS2 starts in 6 seconds, and most graphics ops are instantaeous.

Good point. Of course, the problem that there is very broad range of what you can do in Photoshop. You can do plenty that doesn't require much horsepower. You can also work a CPU to death. (Not literally.)

There are many times that my CPU cruises along without the temp even going up. Those situations would fit a Celeron without any trouble. Actually, when editing any single picture without a deadline the speed can be acceptable with a fairly slow CPU.

Hey, I've run Photoshop on some pretty slow computers going back to Photoshop 3. At the time, they seemed fast enough. With time, they all seemed to slow down.

I now edit several hundred wedding pictures at a time. I run a few key filters that run more than fast enough for a single picture. However, when I'm trying to move the workflow, they seem rather slow on my P4 3.2 GHz Prescott with 1GB of RAM. When I get these running through big batches (which I do whenever possible), I never have enough speed. I can watch the temp climb to just about the "yellow" with the processor maxed out.

I will admit that I haven't tried the newer Celeron processors. I've heard that your M and the D are faster. How much faster in real Photoshop work, I don't know.

So, the real question is: "What will you be doing with Photoshop?" If you can predict that, you should be able to build the ideal computer for it.

Clyde

Rod Paulson

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