Re: how much memory for using Photoshop ?

"Bernard Cordier" <cordier-bernard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Hi,
> My daughter uses Photoshop CS2 with a A5 Wacom pen tablet. She draws
large 
> images like 6000 * 6000 px or more. Her PC is a Dell Dimension 5150 with
a 
> 2.4 GHZ processor and 2 GO RAM, which sounds comfortable enough to me. 
> However, working in that conditions turns out to be very slow. What
would 
> be the necessary power to work with comfort on a very large image with 
> Photoshop?
> Thanks.
>
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> Bernard Cordier
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before spending on a new comp

have you tried adding some extra drives??
and making sure the primary scratch drive is not set to the C drive??

look under options to set that
PS is more dependent on having drive space unless she is doing filters or 
other mathematical processes that require chip speed