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Re: filmscanners: Computer System Recommendations
I agree with the other comments you received, though a dual computer system
might be more than you need for your circumstances.
Make sure you have a lot of disc space for image storage. I use two 80 gb
drives. Also, you'll want to partition a drive so that Photoshop can have it's
own separate scratch area. 7200 rpm discs are best but 5400 rpm discs really
aren't proportionally that much slower provided that you have enough RAM so
that you don't do a lot of scratch writing to disc.
Get at least 512K of RAM. But make sure you can expand it to 1 or 2 gb. If
you ever have a need to process a 600 mb file from medium format film with only
512K, SilverFast Ai will crash and other software will run very slow due to all
of the disc swapping it has to do.
Your operating system should have firewire capability as that's the current
"wave of the future." Me has it, but that would be my first choice.
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