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07/26/2004 05:16:43 PM · #51 |
Originally posted by doctornick:
4 year old Powerbook G3, 40 Gb HD, 1 GB RAM, running OS X 10.2.8, Photoshop CS, iPhoto.
Waiting for the new G5 Laptops to come out, I need an upgrade badly, I only have about 3 GB of HD space left.. :( |
Just so you know, a friend of mine is an Apple rep, and he says it will be at least two years before a G5 laptop would be a possibility. Think about how hot the G4 powerbooks get! The G5 would burn your desk (or your lap) and adding enough fans to counteract that would bulk up the laptop considerably. When they advance the liquid cooling technology, they will be able to move forward with the G5 laptop, but don't hold your breath!
I just got my G5 desktop, BTW, and they forgot to deinstall the programs (I got the floor model for a discount, which was why I had to wait) so I got Adobe CS, DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut Pro, and Miscrsoft Office 2004 all free!
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07/26/2004 05:29:18 PM · #52 |
That's wonderful that you got your G5. I'm sure you'll be thriled with it as I have been with mine. Not a better 'puter on the planet as far as I'm concerned.
However, you can't in good conscience keep and use the programs that the store left on the HD (which is just damn odd anyway). Software makers work very hard to create those programs, software piracy is illegal, and I'd be a little pissed off that the store didn't reformat the drive for you as you have no idea what some idiot has done to it while playing around.
Think of it this way, if someone used your photographs and didn't bother to compensate you for your work, wouldn't that bother you? |
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07/26/2004 07:27:01 PM · #53 |
Brown dropped off my new G5 today! YAY! But I can't set her up until Friday because I'll be at a trade show until Thursday. I can't wait!
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07/26/2004 08:00:34 PM · #54 |
A bit of a late reply, but thought I should reply given that no-one else has waved the linux flag :-).
My 'main' machine is:
Athon 1400, 512Mb ram, Debian Linux. 20G local drive, and a disturbing amount of storage on my server.
Philips 107s monitor (old style with speakers) which will have to be replaced soon as it has to be turned right up to be usable now.
I use gtkam + gimp + gthumb for image management/editing. I've also used neatimage (under wine) a bit, but don't really like the effect,it only has limited applications IMHO.
I've also got an old Toshiba Celeron 400 Laptop with 128Mb, running RedHat 9.0 which I use on occasion with the camera, but it's really too slow for editing 5M images if you get more than two or three layers in gimp.
Various other OS's and machines at work, Linux and Win 98 up to 2003/citrix depending on where I log in. (It Geek, gotta have the toys).
edit: Typo.
Message edited by author 2004-07-26 20:05:54. |
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07/26/2004 08:11:52 PM · #55 |
Recently upgraded this system for graphics and video:
P4 3.2 gHz
512 meg ram
Viewsonic A70f+ flat screen 17" monitor
Adobe Photoshop CS
Adobe Premiere Pro
This machine not connected to internet. |
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07/26/2004 08:18:48 PM · #56 |
Dual PIII 1.26GHz 2GB RAM on a Supermicro P3TDDE with 3Dlabs VP870 driving a 19" Mitsubishi 930SB and 19" Hitachi CM751 both running 1600x1200@32bit and an ATi Rage 8MB driving a 15" Gateway Sony Trinitron running 1024x768@32bit. 2x80GB Maxtor 8MB Cache in RAID 0. NEC DVD 4x +R/+RW. Liteon 40x CDR/RW. SoundBlaster LiveValue. Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 Surround. Logitech MX700. Logitech Chordless Pro Kbd. Wacom Intuos II 4"x5". Epson 1200 Scanner. Epson C70 Printer.
running Win 2K SP4 with Litestep explorer (15% performace increase over Windows explorer)
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07/26/2004 08:57:53 PM · #57 |
OK...I'm going to go ahead and ask...regardless of how stupid I sound, or how non-techie my background is...humor me, please.
What is the benefit of having two, three, four, or more monitors on your computer system? If you are editing video, that's one thing...but for photography purposes...I don't understand. Please enlighten me. :o)
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07/26/2004 08:59:34 PM · #58 |
Originally posted by laurielblack:
What is the benefit of having two, three, four, or more monitors on your computer system? |
So little time so many games :P |
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07/26/2004 09:15:18 PM · #59 |
Home Desktop
P4 2.8GHz, 1 Gig RAM, ATI X800 Pro 256Mb gfx card and a 19" viewsonic PF790
Home Laptop: Sony Vaio TR2A 1GHz Pentium M, with 512Mb RAM
Work Laptop: HP/ Compaq 6000 series, Pentium M 1.4GHz
Work Desktop: 256 processor array with 1 terabyte system memory (well, more my work desk than desktop really)
Softwarewise, Photoshop CS on both home systems, Capture One for RAW processing, Breezebrowser for initial edit, QImage for printing and Archive Creator for burning
Message edited by author 2004-07-26 21:16:29.
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07/26/2004 09:15:46 PM · #60 |
I actually run with 3 displays:
- Radius PrecisionColor Display/17 (oldie but a goodie! over 10 years now?)
- Sony 17
- LaCie electronBlue 22 IV (amazing display)
I keep my chat/email/etc on the left display, web browsing, application palettes, file browsing on the right display and my main (22") display available for photo editing, illustration, or whatever I happen to be doing... a lot of which is Flash development, for which I could use another couple displays.
The heart is a G5/1.6/768MB, 80G + 160G drives, G4/400 server (200gb or so) and a RH9 box as a redundant firewall/caching DNS server.. Epson 2200 SuperDuperâ„¢ Printing Device.
Speaking of old macs...
I still have a Mac Plus with external floppy, keyboard and mouse. It still works.
We play Putt-Putt sometimes :) |
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07/26/2004 09:17:45 PM · #61 |
Originally posted by laurielblack:
OK...I'm going to go ahead and ask...regardless of how stupid I sound, or how non-techie my background is...humor me, please.
What is the benefit of having two, three, four, or more monitors on your computer system? If you are editing video, that's one thing...but for photography purposes...I don't understand. Please enlighten me. :o) |
What?!? You're not impressed?? |
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07/27/2004 12:14:32 AM · #62 |
Just so you know. You're all a REALLY bad influence on me. Not only do I spend all my time shooting pictures or watching my challenge stats (instead of working!) but now I've gone and done something rather expensive. I've been happy with my current box but after reading everyone else's setup I got a little bit jealous.
On Wednesday, the UPS man will be delivering a brand new Apple Dual 1.8GHz PowerPC G5, 900Mhz bus, 3PCI-X slots, 8X AGP slot, 1GB SDRAM, ATI 9600 Radeon Pro video card with 64MB VRAM, Sonata SD video card with 16MB VRAM, 160GB HD. This isn't the stripped down, low end version they just started selling but the highend motherboard that was released last November. Yeah!
Damn you people!
;-)
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07/27/2004 02:46:34 AM · #63 |
Originally posted by laurielblack:
OK...I'm going to go ahead and ask...regardless of how stupid I sound, or how non-techie my background is...humor me, please.
What is the benefit of having two, three, four, or more monitors on your computer system? If you are editing video, that's one thing...but for photography purposes...I don't understand. Please enlighten me. :o) |
I run dual monitors at work so I can have my email, MS word and stuff on one screen, and have server consoles, web browsing and other stuff on the other. Handy for that.. At home I used to run dual, but the second one died, and I'm too cheap to replace it! :-).
For photo editing in gimp with the dual screen setup you can have a 'preview' at 100% zoom on one screen, and all your floating toolbars, tool options and the zoomed in 'editing' copy of the image on the other I suppose. I imagine PS can do a similar trick? I only use it in passing at work when I need to open a PSD, so I'm not an expert on that one... |
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07/27/2004 03:31:12 AM · #64 |
Originally posted by ohmark:
Originally posted by laurielblack:
OK...I'm going to go ahead and ask...regardless of how stupid I sound, or how non-techie my background is...humor me, please.
What is the benefit of having two, three, four, or more monitors on your computer system? If you are editing video, that's one thing...but for photography purposes...I don't understand. Please enlighten me. :o) |
I run dual monitors at work so I can have my email, MS word and stuff on one screen, and have server consoles, web browsing and other stuff on the other. Handy for that.. At home I used to run dual, but the second one died, and I'm too cheap to replace it! :-).
For photo editing in gimp with the dual screen setup you can have a 'preview' at 100% zoom on one screen, and all your floating toolbars, tool options and the zoomed in 'editing' copy of the image on the other I suppose. I imagine PS can do a similar trick? I only use it in passing at work when I need to open a PSD, so I'm not an expert on that one... |
You're correct. Most people use a second monitor to keep the myriad of Photoshop (or any palette heavy application) palettes open. You can also use additional monitors for additional views of the same doc. Such as "fit to screen" or 100% on the small monitor and then the big monitor zoomed in to 800% or so. This allows you to make pixel level edits while not losing the "big picture".
Once you go multiple, you won't go back!
Free Tip #1 - In Photoshop, hit the Tab key to hide/unhide all palettes
Free Tip #2 - In Photoshop, hit Shift Tab to hide/unhide all palettes ACCEPT the tools palette and top palette dock.
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