Random. Assembly!
May 27th, 2008When I started drawing this thing I call a comic, I was on a little iBook that had a 10 GB hard drive and about 512 MB of RAM using a student version of Photoshop 7. For the past three years, I’ve been using a PowerMac G5 with 512 MB of RAM, still using a student version of Photoshop 7. In the next week or so, I will be the excited recipient of 4 Gigs of RAM to add to this machine, and the Adobe CS3 Design Standard Suite to help me learn so much more about comics and graphic design.
Things are beginning to happen. It’s kind of exciting.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:44 am
512 GB of RAM in an iBook or a G5 sounds like a lot of RAM actually.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Thanks, I did not catch that… but it would be pretty sweet. TERRABYTE OF RAM! RAR!
June 11th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Keen - 512 isn’t -too- bad for Photoshop, but if you’re doing 300 DPI stuff, you’ll notice some sluggish performance.
I think Photoshop’s performance caps somewhere between 1 and 2 GB of RAM. I notice only the slightest difference when I upgraded from 1 to 2 gigs, and nothing at all from 2 to 6.
Why all the RAM? It was free. =) Otherwise, I wouldn’t waste money after 2 gigs, unless I’m running a server.
June 13th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Damn it Mike! Don’t you know more is always better, even when it isn’t?
She’ll need the extra RAM to run other stuff at the same time. Photoshop can really only utilize 1 to 2 GB effectively but other programs will add to it.