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Hi:
A friend of mine has an older Mac (PowerMac, 400 MHz w/768 RAM; 20 GB Hard Drive) with Photoshop 6. He’s a professional photographer and is, at long last, going digital. He can upgrade to a max of 1 GB RAM. I’ve got an almost as old Dell Inspiron 2500 notebook (800 MHz w/ 512 MB RAM — the maximum; and an 80 GB hard drive)and Photoshop 7 installed.
He just used a friend’s Canon ImagePrograf 6100 — he does a lot of large format printing — and was pretty impressed and will likely buy one.
So, the question is: which computer is better to use? I don’t need the Dell anymore (and have a separate license for CS2 on my other machine). He’s felt that his Mac runs pretty slow on large files. I’ve noticed no real problems on mine, but I don’t run large scanned files and don’t do anywhere near the manipulation he does.
Or is he better off just getting a new machine?
Hope that’s not too fuzzy a question.
Many thanks,
George
A friend of mine has an older Mac (PowerMac, 400 MHz w/768 RAM; 20 GB Hard Drive) with Photoshop 6. He’s a professional photographer and is, at long last, going digital. He can upgrade to a max of 1 GB RAM. I’ve got an almost as old Dell Inspiron 2500 notebook (800 MHz w/ 512 MB RAM — the maximum; and an 80 GB hard drive)and Photoshop 7 installed.
He just used a friend’s Canon ImagePrograf 6100 — he does a lot of large format printing — and was pretty impressed and will likely buy one.
So, the question is: which computer is better to use? I don’t need the Dell anymore (and have a separate license for CS2 on my other machine). He’s felt that his Mac runs pretty slow on large files. I’ve noticed no real problems on mine, but I don’t run large scanned files and don’t do anywhere near the manipulation he does.
Or is he better off just getting a new machine?
Hope that’s not too fuzzy a question.
Many thanks,
George
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