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- From: mlobbia@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Kaneda)
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- Subject: Re: Ideal Photoshop Setup?
- Summary: Get ThunderBolt!
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- Date: 12 Sep 92 06:10:58 GMT
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- Well, the September MacWorld just had a review of large display (16"-21")
- monitors. You might want to take a look at that.
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- As for memory, I have a IIci 20/240, hooked up to a Microtek color scanner.
- All I can say is too much is never enough. I suggest you get the fastest
- machine you can afford - a Quadra 950 with a Rocket running RocketShare
- sounds nice ;-). If you're planning on working with large files, get at
- least 20 megs of RAM - Photoshop requires 3 to 5 times the file
- size in RAM to work without virtual memory. My 240 megs of hard disk space
- is well over 50% full - with most everything compressed.
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- One idea: Some company (SuperMac?) is coming out with a board called the
- ThunderBolt (I think). Supposedly this board has a RISC processor, that,
- when using a special Photoshop plug-in, will speed the program operations up
- to 10 times faster. Sounds pretty cool to me! The board is something like
- $1000 by itself, or $4000 when bundled with the company's top-of-the-line
- video card. This is all of the top of my head, so some of it might be
- wrong. Anyway, this sounds like a relatively cheap way of speeding up
- Photoshop. Might want to give it a thought.
-
- Just my two cents. ;-)
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