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Re: thanks Midwest
In reply to R2D2,
5 months ago
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R2D2 wrote:
dzba wrote:
Have read that currently over 60% of the world still uses Win XP . Tells you something about not quite being out dated yet.
Agree with Midwest's recommendations. You can get a really nice Win7 PC (box) for under $500 nowadays.
For those who have the extra bucks, I highly recommend installing a Solid State Drive to be used as the "c:" drive (it'll be your windows Paging File drive, and also your Photoshop Scratch Disk as well). The SSDs are very very fast and provide a notable increase in performance.
Point of order as an IT guy; Having your paging file on an SSD is a horrible idea for the longevity of the device. SSDs (like CF and SD) have finite read-write cycles before the stop working. And while they have firmware that tries to maximize the life, having something like the paging file on the SSD is a *bad* idea. You're *much* better off spending the bux to double your RAM and leaving the paging file on a traditional disk.
And I do still keep a nice XP machine around to run some dated 32-bit software/drivers.
R2
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