Bill, There is nothing wrong with the PC interface...............lets not have a PC war....
Version 8.0 is fine, as Cotty said, certainly 7 and 8 run ok with two disks. In version 8.0 make sure that the level of detail is set to low in the browser. You should run with 512Mb as a minimum for reasonable performance. HTH Regards, Ziggy -----Original Message----- From: Bill D. Casselberry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 January 2004 16:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Photoshop performance (was: Re: Used DSLR prices Cotty wrote: > As I understand the way Photoshop works, this is not correct. It is > not the user that decides if Photoshop has to swap to disk, it is > Photoshop. And it will readily do so depending on a number of factors > including levels of history vs file size etc. I am prepared to stand > corrected, but I am pretty certain that it works this way. Hard drive > speed is not as important as some indicate; Photoshop craftily > utilises the Scratch > Disk(s) to enable optimum performance. Using a second drive is very > important - selecting the startup disk as a Scratch Disk will slow > performance. ah, but Cotty! just because PhotoShop for Macintosh has such elegant interface w/ the hardware is certainly no guarantee that an equally graceful operation is possible on all other computer platforms !;^D Bill --------------------------------------------------------- Bill D. Casselberry ; Photography on the Oregon Coast http://www.orednet.org/~bcasselb [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------
