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pc specs for photo editing in photoshop

hello,

i have a customer that wants to use photoshop for editing his pictures, taken with a NIKON
the pictures are 24 Mb size each.
up to now he was doing this on an XP pc with 2 GB ram, and complains that it is getting slow.

so what system specs does he need minimum, in order to have a fast pc for this application?
and what system can you recommend, above the minimum - having a good performance / price ratio?
budget is around 1000 euro's

he will use an SSD for the OS and a 2-4 TB drive for storage

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Rob G

If he is using XP and his only complaint is that it's getting slow..
Add more memory.. if it is 2GB, max it out to 4GB.
Alternately you can clone the OS Partition to a SSD and use a 7200RPM SATA drive as storage.. That would speed things way up, and likely cost you no more than a 175.00 euro.

Clonezilla to clone the OS to SSD
takes about 20min
Add 2 additional GB of memory takes about 5-15min

The issue you have with upgrading at this point..
You will likely be forced to Windows 8.1 (Which sucks)
You will need to buy a new copy of Photoshop that supports 8.1 (Expensive, 286.00 yearly)

Honestly,
If he is interested in Photo things, get a MAC.

nobus

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robg, tx for the info - but upgrading a bit is out of the Q
we think about this config
Case ATX Triks
Power Supply 750W Plus
Asus mainboard H97M-E
Intel Core-i7 4790 3,6 Ghz
4 x 8Gb Ram Kingston 1600Mhz
DVD-RW
Kingston SSD 240GB
HD 4TB Western Digital SATA3 Intellipower
video : GTX760 Pe16 Geforce 2GB

any suggestions ?

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