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July 12, 2010
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Best Computer for Photoshop CS5

  • July 12, 2010
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I really do not know a lot about computers, anyone out there can tell me the specifics I need to know when purchasing a new computer?

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    Participant
    July 8, 2011

    And how much you have a laptop with similar configuration as mine? (model I mentioned above) I bought it for $ 800 US.
    I certainly understand that for Russia and for Europe, America makes quite a different quality laptops.

    Sorry for offtopic

    Participant
    July 8, 2011

    First of all, the speed of Photoshop depends on the processor or video card?

    Participant
    July 8, 2011

    Sorry, do not just give you a link. I mean here is this laptop.

    Another question. Which is better? AMD or Intell? ATI Radeon or Geforse?

    In particular, AMD Phenom II Quad-Core 1800MHz Champlain (N960), or better Intell i3 or i5.

    And at the expense of HDD. Strongly depends on whether the work with photoshop on the speed of HDD.

    Maybe it makes sense to buy a SSD hard disk?

    Thank you for your attention.

    Participant
    July 7, 2011

    I bought myself this laptop (asus n53da). Will Photoshop work freely on this model?

    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    July 7, 2011

    What are the full specs. of that laptop?

    Those will tell the tale, or install and try.

    Good luck,

    Hunt

    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    July 15, 2010

    Just a different thought...

    I've actually had good luck getting powerful machines inexpensively by buying just off cutting-edge Dell workstations from eBay.  Such a machine, with some brand new drives, can really zip along and so far all mine have been very reliable.

    -Noel

    Participant
    July 15, 2010

    PS does use many CPU cores.  I'd go for the Phenom X6 if possible in order to minize mixer brush lag.

    July 13, 2010

    Ivaharas

    I found the information on this site very useful when researching my own build.  You could also use it as a shopping guide for a commercial PC.

    http://www.imagescience.com.au/kb/questions/141/Build+a+powerful+PC+for+Photoshop+and+other+imaging+applications

    Sandboxie is a very interesting concept too!

    July 12, 2010

    Maybe Mark works for Apple now.

    Reynolds__Mark_
    Inspiring
    July 12, 2010

    http://www.apple.com/uk/macpro/

    Zeno Bokor
    Inspiring
    July 12, 2010

    Please stop it or would you like it if we went to the mac forum and told people there that they should install Windows in order to work around OSX bugs?

    July 12, 2010

    Any high speed cpu will do. Be it a core duo or i7, difference between an e5200 and i7 will be marginal if you use PS for files of average size. Get as much ram as you can and at least 2 hard disks, so you can put your scratch disk on a separate physical drive. Any certified/tested graphics card will do, many untested  cards also work just fine. If you intend to use 3D however, I suggest you get a decent card.