> At the moment i am compiling single algebra "working sheets" with lots > of graphical elements to bigger Sets up to about 50 sheets each. > My PC needs a lot of time to do so.
What you mean exactly - on what actions you get most of delays? I am working on speeding up some Scribus actions like opening documents or importing texts - they needs some code cleanups. > CPU: Does Scribus handle more than one core well, or is one fast core > sufficient? Till now Scribus dont use more than one thread, so it is almost same fast on 4-core i7 and 2 core DuoCore and single core Petnium if all works with same frequency (depends mostly on other system stuff going on simultaneously). Differences in internal processors architecture (like internal cache) make them faster than other, but not cores number. Also you must remember that new processors that also new motherboard with new chipsets - it all may make difference. Meybe some day dev team decide to go to multithreaded model, but not in near future I afraid. > RAM: As there are never used more than 1GB of RAM, running scribus, 2GB > should be enough. Whereas I guess faster RAM would speed up. When I am working with above 100 pages document with lots of pictures and mass of text frames my Scribus is going to eat even 2GB RAM for himself. Actually I have 4 GB and it seems to fit my needs. Speed of RAM has inpact of performance, but you must to know, that even 2x faster RAM (and pherhaps 4x more expansive) dont give you 2x faster computer. Impact maybe will be 10% or even less. > Graphics card? I am not hardware expert but I think graphics card has small impact in overall performance of Scribus. > SSD? Hmmm. SSD disk may increase Scribus performance, specially when you open docs or import big images and graphics. Generally good choice if you have lot of money to spend. BUT Few weeks ago I buy new hardware for my desktop and switch from Pentium 4 2.4 GHz/2GB RAM/160GB HDD (SATA150) to i7 4-core 8-threads 2.2 GHz/6GB fast RAM/1TB HDD (SATA300) and notice BIG difference in speed in Scribus. My advice - prepare bootable USB stick with Ubuntu, Scribus and you documents. Go to shop and and ask if can ran laptop from your USB - just check in shop how new laptop will working for you with yours warkflow. cezaryece
