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- From: cgarnett@amhux1.amherst.edu (Craig Garnett '87)
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- Subject: Re: Ideal Photoshop Setup?
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- Date: 11 Sep 92 22:34:42 GMT
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- David Putzolu (putzolu@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
- : A coworker of mine is involved in setting up a good system for
- : photo-manipulation. He is planning on using Photoshop and is trying
- : to decide what sort of hardware he needs to run it on. Being a Mac
- : person who is not into DTP, I don't feel comfortable recommending
- : things to him without at least some net help. He has already decided
- : that he needs a Quadra 950 but is unsure about the video and memory
- : needs of the system. He is willing to fork out the $ to get a 21"
- : color monitor, but is unsure about any of the details.
- : My questions:
- : 1) Is the internal video on a 950 able to drive a 21" monitor
- : to 24 bit color (w/2mb vram)? If so, which monitors (Apple, Nec, etc.?)
-
- No. It will only drive it to "thousands", which is 16-bit color, even
- with 2mb of VRAM.
-
- : 2) If not, is an accelerated video card necessary? Nec sells a
- : non-accelerated card, but would it be fast? If a card is
- : necessary (accelerated or not) for 24bit color, what do you
- : recommend?
-
- If you are going to be running a 21" monitor at 24-bit color, you're
- going to HAVE to have an accelerated video card, or it's going to be
- unbearably slow. Both Radius and RasterOps make decent cards. Do NOT buy
- an Apple 8*24 GC card! NOT! First, the software in general is bad and
- will make your Mac crash. Second, it does NOT work with Quadras.
-
-
- : 3) What is the best 21" Color monitor? He can get a good price on
- : a Nec or on an Apple, what do you recommend?
- :
-
- Something like a NEC 5FG would probably be a good move. While the Apple
- monitor is not bad at all, i'm not certain that you'd have a good time
- finding a video card to drive it at 24 bits. And I think that the NEC
- monitor is a flat screen, which is really nice for photo work.
-
- As an aside, tell your friend to buy armloads of memory. A single page
- of 300 dpi 24-bit color will be around 25MB in size. And that's for 8
- 1/2" x 11". Photoshop will run a lot faster if it doesn't have to do the
- virtual memory thing, and since it keeps an undo buffer and crap like
- that, 64mb is probably the minimum amount of RAM he's going to want. And
- as for hard disk space....Apple doesn't sell one big enough.
-
- -Craig
-