Quad processor lust

Just finished unboxing my nice new machine - trying to figure out how the wife can swim in it ......

You lucky lucky bugger!

Get mine in a couple of weeks, should be the same time as Aperature is available.

How have you configured it RAM, video card etc?

What are your thoughts about its performance with Photoshop?

Ron ,

I configured the machine as such

4GB 533 DDR2 Non ECC SDRAM - 4x1GB ( will add more as the budget allows )

500GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm - already have a heap of externals

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 256MB SDRAM ( 7800's are on a 8 week backorder )

I figure that I can always upgrade the machine once the wife has started to swim in her new pool.... it may get her to coool down a little.

My motivation in getting this machine is two fold. Firstly I wanted the grunt more for video work and secondly I had an offer I couldn't refuse for the oldmachine ( 2.7DP , 8gig Ram , 2 x 400 )

HDV & related software just run better on new machines and I hate having to deal with the spinning ball of death.

I have been wondering how much faster one of these machines is compared my current rig, a 1.33 GHz G4 laptop with 2GB of RAM. An order of magnitude ????

Congratulations and Happy Thanksgiving!

Tom

Tom,

There is no comparison between the two machines.

Its a bit like the VW & the Porsche.........

Just added another 4 gig of ram (total 8 gig now , still have space for another 8 ) - it really flies now.

My poor old power book hasn't been out of it's case in days !!

but I'm sure it's a bugger to haul around when doing field editing..

And what kind of battery would you use??? LOL