Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jeffery, I don't know. I just realized that my desktop at home in NL is not 4 but 5 years old. It is far from non-functional. I bought it back then with 1 GB RAM, which I have since doubled, and I also added a second internal HD and a better DVD burner at some point. It runs Lightroom and CS2 just fine, as well as the other software I have on it. Granted, I still use Office 2000 on it, but so what? Likewise, my Powerbook G4 which now is my main computer (since it is the only one I have with me here in Spain) came with 512 MB when I bought it in early 2006, but for about ?100 I added the RAM to bring it up to 1.25 GB, and it runs both Lightroom and Photoshop just fine. Basically almost all the pictures I have posted this year have been processed on this computer. I have found over the years that one of Adobe's virtues is that successive versions of their programs do not necessarily get bigger and slower the way most other software does. When I went from Photoshop 7 to CS, I discovered to my delight that CS actually ran faster on the same hardware. I think that as long as one does not follow Microsoft's upgrade path, a computer can easily last several years before it is obsolete. Nathan On 29-nov-2007, at 3:03, Jeffery Smith wrote: >> >> I think that "as much as you can afford" is the best answer. I >> will no >> longer buy a computer with less than 4gb. A PC that I bought that >> was a real >> "screamer" 5 years ago is now completely non-functional. Just >> starting >> Windows and getting Outlook up and running takes about 15 minutes. >> What you >> buy now will be made obsolete as soon as possible. That's what keeps >> computer manufacturers in business. Today's screamer is tomorrow's >> molasses >> in winter. An Apple notebook that I bought in early 2005 now >> crawls with its >> 512mb RAM. Same computer, but new software. Since you cannot feed the >> computer steroids, buy a muscular one to begin with. >> > > -- > Jeffery L. Smith > New Orleans, LA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Nathan Wajsman nathan@nathanfoto.com General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog