computer choice

Hallo everybody, I am from Holland, so don't hessitate in replying because of my bad englisch.

Next month I am going to buy a new computer. I don't know that much about computers, but what I know is that a videocard is important for my digital photo's. I have been looking to the Matrox cards and ASUS Geforce cards, but I don't know which one to choose. I'd like to have some advise from you experts in this.

Secondly, I want to buy the Epson Photo 895 printer, but are there any possibilities in malfunctioning with my Canon Powershot S30.

I'd like to hear some more advises for my purchase.

Hope to hear from you!--Alex

You want a video card with enough memory to provide "millions" of colors for the resolution on your monitor. That means at least three bytes per pixel but may mean more depending on how the memory board works. Speed is not that big a deal for digital photo work. Speed is important for doing video, games, etc. when the screen images changes rapidly. Unfortunately, I don't know about the particular cards you mentioned. Leon

capel said:

Hallo everybody, I am from Holland, so don't hessitate in replying
because of my bad englisch.

Next month I am going to buy a new computer. I don't know that much
about computers, but what I know is that a videocard is important
for my digital photo's. I have been looking to the Matrox cards and
ASUS Geforce cards, but I don't know which one to choose. I'd like
to have some advise from you experts in this.

Secondly, I want to buy the Epson Photo 895 printer, but are there
any possibilities in malfunctioning with my Canon Powershot S30.

I'd like to hear some more advises for my purchase.

Hope to hear from you!
--
Alex

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What you want is a Macintosh. If you're on a budget, an iMac will suffice, thought it's a little more difficult to do an accurate monitor calibration on it. If you have lots of gilder (that what you have there?) then a get a G4. With any Mac, you'll be up and running and doing actual work, as opposed to fiddling with your system, much quicker. It will make you happy, a better person. You will think how lucky you are to be alive in this period of time.

If you play any games or do any work which uses Open GL or Direct 3D, the GeForce is a much better choice (Asus is a good brand, but don't rules out other brands such as Leadtek). If your only concern is 2D quality, you want Matrox.

Harlan said:

What you want is a Macintosh. If you're on a budget, an iMac will
suffice, thought it's a little more difficult to do an accurate
monitor calibration on it. If you have lots of gilder (that what
you have there?) then a get a G4. With any Mac, you'll be up and
running and doing actual work, as opposed to fiddling with your
system, much quicker. It will make you happy, a better person. You
will think how lucky you are to be alive in this period of time.

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If only Macs could make you intelligent too...

Oh well, they don't and your statement proves that ;^)

dgrogers said:

If only Macs could make you intelligent too...

Oh well, they don't and your statement proves that ;^)

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hey dgrogers, if that's what your name really is, if dpreview had a parking lot, i'd invite you out into it right now. you and your little winky smiley face. HA!!

; (

Unless you are a games player don't spend too much on the graphics card.

Far more important if you plan lots of digital photography is the quality and size of your monitor, although you need to check that the graphics card will support the monitors' recomended resolution/refresh rate at at least 24 bit if not 32 bit colour (sometimes called True Color).

Again my advice is spend extra on the monitor not the graphics card (for image work).

Extra memory (at least 256MB) is a good idea, as well as a large hard disk drive. A CDR/RW drive is probably essential as a back-up/file transport device.

Hope this helps.

Mark H. (Minolta Dimage 7 owner)

Your English is much better than my Dutch.

Either card is good, I've had experience with both, but the GeForce cards have a much greater market share. As someone pointed out, for photography, speed is not that important, but memory and resolution are, so consider getting at least a 32 MB card. Of course, your monitor must have sufficient resolution. I'm writing you this on a system with a 32 MB GeForce 2 (it's an inexpensive,

capel said:

Hallo everybody, I am from Holland, so don't hessitate in replying
because of my bad englisch.

Next month I am going to buy a new computer. I don't know that much
about computers, but what I know is that a videocard is important
for my digital photo's. I have been looking to the Matrox cards and
ASUS Geforce cards, but I don't know which one to choose. I'd like
to have some advise from you experts in this.

Secondly, I want to buy the Epson Photo 895 printer, but are there
any possibilities in malfunctioning with my Canon Powershot S30.

I'd like to hear some more advises for my purchase.

Hope to hear from you!
--
Alex

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if you plan on gaming forget mackintosh stick to pc get lotsa ram anyways regardless what graphics card you get , working with pictures you need ram

lots of it and its dirt cheap nowdays , if you are playing games stick to nvidia based chip they have betetr drivers than ATI , and right now they are on top

awkman said:

Either card is good, I've had experience with both, but the GeForce
cards have a much greater market share. As someone pointed out,
for photography, speed is not that important, but memory and
resolution are, so consider getting at least a 32 MB card. Of
course, your monitor must have sufficient resolution. I'm writing
you this on a system with a 32 MB GeForce 2 (it's an inexpensive,
$100 card) that allows me to see 32-bit color on a 1280x1024 screen
which is fine for me.

capel said:

Hallo everybody, I am from Holland, so don't hessitate in replying
because of my bad englisch.

Next month I am going to buy a new computer. I don't know that much
about computers, but what I know is that a videocard is important
for my digital photo's. I have been looking to the Matrox cards and
ASUS Geforce cards, but I don't know which one to choose. I'd like
to have some advise from you experts in this.

Secondly, I want to buy the Epson Photo 895 printer, but are there
any possibilities in malfunctioning with my Canon Powershot S30.

I'd like to hear some more advises for my purchase.

Hope to hear from you!
--
Alex

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