Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/24

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Subject: [Leica] OT - Best PC Setup for Photoshop Question
From: gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)
Date: Fri Nov 24 08:15:57 2006
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Brian Reid writes in part:

> When Photoshop CS3 comes out, I'd expect it to be 64-bit clean, 
> and then you will really get your money's worth out of those Opterons.
> 
> If $10K is too much, then go with 1 dual-core processor, 4GB of 
> memory, and 2 disks; put your photoshop scratch storage and your 
> home directory on the big disk and use an 80GB boot.

Thanks Brian, and all others who took the time to make recommendations. My 
budget is $5K, excluding the monitor shipping and tax. I've been looking at 
Dell's offerings as I've found them reliable in the past. This leaves out 
AMD processors, so I'm looking at the Intel Dual Core Xeon 5150.
 
Greg J. Lorenzo
Calgary, Alberta
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