Mixel ([info]mixelmagic) wrote,
@ 2006-08-19 14:17:00
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Entry tags:hardware, mac

Geeky Stuff
I upgraded my RAM and got a second internal HD.. Always running photoshop and 4+ other big apps* was slowing the Mac down a lot. :/ It sucked having a nice powerful machine but having it bottleneck all the time.

2GB should be enough for anyone! ... When the hell did HDs get so cheap!? I got a SATA2 Seagate Barracuda - 320GB (!!) - 16MB buffer..... £75 including postage?! WHAAAaa?!

- whahaha! (I don't expect this to make sense to most of you..)

Anyway, working on the machine should be considerably faster now. Woohoo!

*Sad how what used to be small apps.. IM programs, email, browsers etc are all getting huge too. Ah well.


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Damn!
[info]fatalismnot4me
2006-08-19 02:23 pm UTC (link)
Wow, Mix, you have a LOT of process running. No wonder the poor computer couldn't keep up.

And also....OMFG, what the hell is up with the virtual memory for Photoshop? Cripes, that's a lot.

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Re: Damn!
[info]mixelmagic
2006-08-20 07:29 am UTC (link)
I'm usually working on pretty high resolution pics in photoshop, but yeah that does seem like a pretty obscene amount.. I don't know if it includes the 'scratch disk' which you specify within PS either.. I assume it doesn't.. Which would mean over a GB of my HD space is usually allocated to PS?! XD Scary stuff.

After a few days using it with the extra ram it's sooo much smoother now. Pheeew. :)

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