Digital BW, The Print

How best to mix and match Photoshop upgrades and platform upgrades is 
perhaps not intuitive. Here is a quote from BareFeats.com's Quick 
Takes column:

"11/05/03 -- We received our copy of Adobe Photoshop CS (8.0) 
today.We ran our two action (SP and MP) files on our Dual G5 [latest 
and greatest Mac desktop]. Is it faster than version 7.01 with G5 
plugin? No. The old version was 17-18% faster: [table wouldn't copy] 
(both versions were run under OS X "Panther" [10.3, the new-born 
successor to "Jaguar"])"

For the table missing from the quote above see

http://www.barefeats.com/quick.html

Sam


At 7:14 AM -0800 11/5/03, Tom Baker wrote:
>I recently built(about 4 months ago) an AMD 2800+ w/1G of 128bit 
>memory, w/WIN XP.  I just installed CS and it would really be nice 
>to have more memory and speed for all of the nice new 16bit 
>operations.  If you are buying a new system, based on what I have 
>seen of CS thus far, I would go for the highest performance, most 
>memory the budget would allow. 
>
>Having said this, however, I really only have the issues on very 
>large files.  So, if one doesn't normally work with very large 
>files, a newer mid-range XP based machine should work just fine. 
>(Realizing, of course, that 'just fine' is in the eye of the 
>beholder.)
>
>
>Tom Baker
>
>Stephen Kobrin <kobrins@...> wrote:
>It is not just the version of Windows.  As I recall, CS also requires
>a chip running at a minimum of 800mh.  I am about to order a new
>computer also as my Pentium II is not going to do it.
>
>Steve