On Nov 17, 2005, at 7:11 AM, Bryce Lee wrote:
(Deliberately cross-posted)
I purchased a new copy of Photoshop Elements 3 some eight weeks ago.
The program encountered "errors" when loading on to my
Macintosh G3 iBook. 800 Mhz G3, 640 MB Ram with Panther (10.3.9)
as the operating system.
From Adobe's website the requirements are
PowerPC® G3, G4, or G5 processor
Mac OS X v.10.2.8 or v.10.3
256MB of RAM
200MB of available hard-disk space
Color monitor with 16-bit color or greater video card
1,024x768 or greater monitor resolution
CD-ROM drive
So, you are fine there. Unless, of course, you don't have that much
hard drive space. In order to run correctly you should probably have
about 1gig of hard drive space free.
As the program would not load
located the support knowledge base on Adobe's web site. Went
through the
entire list, trying everything to no avail. Even tried a new user
account, as well as reinstalling the system software from scratch. The
program would still not load! The computer met all of the published
criteria for the software.
At this point you also needed to load the program again from scratch.
Do I replace the G3 iBook for the sake of one program? The iBook is
worth
about C$400.00 on a trade-in even with Apple Care through the end of
2006. A new G4 iBook is C$1600.00 plus tax.
OK, that's a huge rip off. You should get more like 600-800 if you
sell the iBook online. You might even get more because the
replacement price you list is for a 14". A 12" is only 1250.
So had my shop check over the G3 iBook. One of the memory chips which
they had installed when I purchased the iBook new, had gone bad. It
was
replaced, no charge. The program would still not load!
Again, it needed to be reinstalled from scratch at this point as
well. There errors initially happeded on installation. Also, given
that you installed the OS while a bad memory chip was in I would
suggest backtracking to installing everything from scratch.
The program should run.
Then too is this a quirk of Adobe? What other less intensive programs
exist?
There aren't lots. Adobe sort of owns the market. I hope other
provide more advice here. I think you need to provide more
information. What sorts of things did you plan to do with the
photos? Its OK to give the old school description from film.
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