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I skipped Vista and want to spend my money on a new 'dream system' with
Win 7, dual monitors and whatever else may be good for the latest PS. (Any
word on CS5 yet?)
Money is not a real problem except I of course want to spend wisely.
What is suggested? Did some Googling with no real results.
32bit or 64bit OS - so far I'm using CS3?
twin 24" LCDs or one 24" and a smaller for the menus? Is 24" the size to
get?
Which dual monitor graphics card is best with PS ? Is there a limit to
max memory that PS can use. I have had bad ATI experiences - is there a
better brand?
Have found no info by Adobe. Anything to look out for?
Regards,
mike |
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| Martin C... |
| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:08 pm |
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I can answer some of the questions. Hopefully others will be able to give
you more.
If you plan on using more than 3GB of RAM, then go for a 64 bit OS as this
will be able to use as much RAM as you can throw at it. Obviously PS is
heavy on RAM usage and will use whatever you can give it. If you are working
on large files, then RAM is obviously important. I am not sure if there is a
limit to the memory PS can use.
Esthetically, twin 24" LCDs will look better - if you have the room to use
both. It really depends on whether you use multiple applications a lot. If
so, then twin 24s will be better than (one 24 and one smaller for menus). A
24" will give you a good resolution of 1920 x 1080 - and obviously lots of
space. If you want a slightly smaller LCD, there is an LG W2353V-PF
Widescreen 23 inch LCD Monitor which also has the same 1920 resolution.
It all really depends on how and why you want to use them. If I had the
space, I would go for twin 23" LG monitors as it is not quite so much in
your face and allows multiple applications to be viewed together on a big
screen. Ideal for me.
You have to make the choice.
I currently use an ATI Radeon 4870 and have no problems with it, so cannot
comment on your ATI problems. As I use the card for gaming, this may not be
relevant to you. Certainly it is overpowered for just graphics work. Others
here will be able to give you a suitable option.
Hope some of this helps.
Martin
<mike at (no spam) nosamm.com> wrote in message
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Quote: I skipped Vista and want to spend my money on a new 'dream system' with
Win 7, dual monitors and whatever else may be good for the latest PS. (Any
word on CS5 yet?)
Money is not a real problem except I of course want to spend wisely.
What is suggested? Did some Googling with no real results.
32bit or 64bit OS - so far I'm using CS3?
twin 24" LCDs or one 24" and a smaller for the menus? Is 24" the size to
get?
Which dual monitor graphics card is best with PS ? Is there a limit to
max memory that PS can use. I have had bad ATI experiences - is there a
better brand?
Have found no info by Adobe. Anything to look out for?
Regards,
mike |
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| Alan Browne... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 6:39 pm |
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mike at (no spam) nosamm.com wrote:
Quote: I skipped Vista and want to spend my money on a new 'dream system' with
Win 7, dual monitors and whatever else may be good for the latest PS. (Any
word on CS5 yet?)
Money is not a real problem except I of course want to spend wisely.
What is suggested? Did some Googling with no real results.
32bit or 64bit OS - so far I'm using CS3?
When you use the word "wisely" then the thing to do is get a Mac.
(Since you skipped Vista, you are already wise).
The iMac's make very good dual monitor systems and part of the price is
the very high quality monitor built in. For photography/photoshop use,
monitor quality is most essential. iMac's from 8.1 up are 64 bit OS
compatible (Snow Leopard). I would get assurance that the graphics
(GPU) is also OpenCL (for the future where we hope Adobe use OpenCL to
get max processing performance, say in CS5). My camera shoots 24.6 Mpix
raws, so doing panos or rotates can be long. Scanned medium format can
be painful, even just to load, never mind rotating a bit.
Adobe will happily transfer your CS3 license from Windohs to Mac OS X.
For heavy lifting (if you do a lot of heavy editing of a lot of images),
then a higher end desktop machine with at least one Apple monitor (or
similar high end monitor) and one "ordinary" monitor for the 2nd display
(unless it is essential to you that both be identical).
Finally, on your new Mac, download VMWare Fusion and under it, install
your WinXP license, and you will have recourse to your legacy software.
You can run both Mac OS X and WinXP in parallel on the one machine and
this includes transferring files from each to the other (drag and drop).
Avoid Bootcamp. (A competing product is Parallels but it is
considered to be not as good as VMWare Fusion).
Don't worry about adapting to the Mac OS X environment. You will be up
and running in minutes from opening the box. A few things are
different, and it is useful to learn the keyboard shortcuts (over time). |
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