RE: [APML] 'Puter Questions

["Howard Edin" <hedin@grapevine.net>]

Warren,

You seem open to a 'new one'. Save the time and money upgrading your current
unit and buy a 'newer' system. Adding memory will help you now but upgrading
will be more cost effective in the long run.

* CPU will be faster, bus speed will be faster.
* faster disk drives: both the interface and drive speed will be better.
* Potentially faster video card.

PCs are inexpensive right now. Starting over on a new system and reloading
your software will save the headache with you current unit (I am assuming
you are running M$ Windows).

Howard.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-astro-photo@seds.org [mailto:owner-astro-photo@seds.org]On
Behalf Of Warren A. Keller
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 1:26 AM
To: apml
Subject: [APML] 'Puter Questions


Gents.
           I'm still limping along on a Pentium II, 64 RAM. PS v.6 and other
large programs, has it behaving like a drunken snail, and seems a bit
unstable with fairly frequent lock-ups and error messages. (# of stack
pages, fatal exception...)

Would an additional memory card help this, or is it more a result of the
processing chip speed? Time for a new one?!

Also along these lines, are there problems, with any stage of post
processing, including smoothing, on a compressed TIFF file since a 22 MB,
35mm full-frame takes an unpractical eternity here?

Thanks everyone!

Warren A. Keller
Billions and Billions- Astrophotos
www.billionsandbillions.com


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