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    Photoshop performance help needed !!!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by shkj, Jun 13, 2006.

  1. shkj

    shkj Notebook Guru

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    Hi All,
    I currently have an Inspiron 9300 fully loaded 2GHZ Pentium-M with 2 GIGS of RAM...I want to speed up my Photoshop and RAW conversion times...How much of a performance increase might I see if I upgrade to a newer Inspiron..perhaps an inspiron 9400 with a faster front side bus 667MHZ vs 533MHZ that is in the 9300

    As for the processor the 9300 has a 2-GHz Intel Pentium M Processor 760
    and the 9400 has a Intel® Core™ Duo Processor T2500 (2.0GHz)
    (both the same speed and same cache)

    In the hard drive department it's bascially SATA VS PATA

    Or should I just wait for the 64bit Merom's Dual core that have 2 MB for each processor ??

    Thanks in advance...shkj
     
    shkj, Jun 13, 2006
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  2. dudesdudets

    dudesdudets Notebook Deity

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    I don't use photoshop but if it is 100% optimized for dual core cpus, then you will see more than twice performance increase.
     
    dudesdudets, Jun 13, 2006
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  3. tomc

    tomc Newbie

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    Photoshop can take advantage of Dual-Core CPU's.

    Some of the newer laptops can go with 4 GB of RAM. RAM is almost always the bottleneck with Photoshop. Next is the hard drive speed, definitely get a SATA 7200 rpm.

    Go the the bookstore and check out Bruce Fraser's Real World Photoshop book, it has an extensive section on system optimization.
     
    tomc, Jun 13, 2006
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  4. khanhfat

    khanhfat Notebook Deity

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    chekc ur windows softwares fix registry problem, do defragment, and Processes run on ur task/ btw.. check the sticky thread they'll help how to optimize the system.

    The system u have is pretty fast.. btw how big is ur RAW file.?

    I edited Jpeg @ full 6MP and when i apply effects on then, ti's pretty slow. but about color adjustment on my 6 MP RAW is not that slow .
     
    khanhfat, Jun 14, 2006
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