Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Minimum you should get for a graphics computer, if you are going PC: Pentium II 300Mhz CPU 128 MB SDRAM good quality motherboard (Tyan or other name brand) 4-9GB hard drive (preferably Seagate or WD UW-SCSI) 8-16MB video graphics card (Matrox is very good) Iomega Zip Drive is good, the new 120MB floppy is better printer....not very knowledgeable here at least a 24X CDROM or 4X DVD good speakers and sound card anything else? Francesco At 07:56 AM 11/22/98 , John McLeod wrote: > >LUGgers, > >I am planning to purchase a new desktop PC soon and want it to have the >"horsepower" for using Photoshop or similar programs. If one goes to a >website like Dell's, for example, and tries to configure a system. there are >many variables including system RAM, video/graphics RAM, hard drive space, >whether to include a built-in Zip drive, printer type, etc. I want to be >sure that this new PC is up to the task of digital photography in general. >Advice appreciated. > >Since this request is already off-topic, if the advice gets too detailed for >general LUG consumption (e.g. the pros and cons of 4 vs. 16 MB of >video/graphics memory), private e-mail is fine. > >John McLeod >