Re: New PC Questions
- From: Simon Waldman <swaldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:43:37 +0100
Off the top of my head, minimum specs for a Windows PC capable of handling digital photos well:
Processor: anything nowadays. AMD usually gives better price/performance ratio than Intel.
Hard drive: You'll be hard pushed to get less than 80Gb... this will be hard to fill unless you refuse to use JPEGs, or to archive... but if you want to keep TIFFs on your hard drive for years then bigger is better.
Video card: anything will do.
RAM: 512Mb is the absolute minimum to use1 Windows XP efficiently. If you're planning on any kind of fiddlign with layers in Photoshop, then get 1Gb.
Monitor: avoid cheap LCD screens for photo work. Colours and contrast levels that change according to your angle of view are a pain. Better to get a CRT, unless you can afford a much better LCD (400 quid or so when I looked about a year ago).
RAM is the main departure from "standard" specs there. IMO it's well worth getting a slower processor in order to afford more RAM. If you're editing photos, this will give you better performance.
Personally, I'm on an Athlon64 3000+ with 1Gb of RAM. My previous machine was a Pentium M 1.5 Ghz with 512Mb, and the bottleneck was definitely the memory.
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"A word to the wise is unnecessary."
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