Reva, Buy as much RAM as you can afford. Most of my pro photographers recommend at least 4MB. I worked in the digital photography industry for a good while and my experience is the same. This is especially true if you're managing files for in-house printing. Trying to rip files with minimal RAM takes a load of time and is frustrating. Having dual hard drives, one for applications and one for image files is my preference. There are lots of little things but I vote for RAM as the top priority. As for a laptop if he will be uploading files to a lab or for online storage (a good idea) then the trade off of portability over a big-as* screen makes sense. What a wonderful gift! Dan Dan Green www.truepresence.com 498 South Gulf Road Belchertown, MA 01007 (413) 253-3400 -----Original Message----- From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Reva Reck Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 8:48 PM To: Hidden Tech Subject: [Hidden-tech] looking for recommendations for graphics PC ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. ** You too can help the group ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. ** If you did, we all thank you. Hi all, My husband is a photographer & needs a new PC. He has a good monitor, which he'll be keeping. I'm used to spec-ing out business PC's, but don't know much about the requirements of programs like photoshop, or digital camera interface software. Anybody have any recommendations? Does a laptop make any sense? We can't get anything better than satellite where we live, so I was thinking that for big uploads he could go somewhere with reasonable internet access speeds if he had a laptop. This may well be a gift, so if you know him, don't mention this posting! TIA, Reva -- ________________________________ Reva Reck (978) 544-3911 reva at revareck.com _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20061205/b86744b7/attachment-0006.html